{"product_id":"the-little-bride-paperback","title":"The Little Bride - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of V.\u003c\/i\u003e, an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut in South Dakota with his two teenage sons. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe country is desolate, the work treacherous. And most troubling, Minna finds herself increasingly attracted to her older stepson. As a brutal winter closes in, the family's limits are tested, and Minna, drawing on strengths she barely knows she has, is forced to confront her despair, as well as her desire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e Best Seller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Evocative of Alice Munro, Amy Bloom, and Willa Cather, but fueled by Anna Solomon's singular imagination . . . a masterful debut . . . embroidered with sage, beautiful writing on every page . . . marks the start of a long, fine, and important career.\" --Jenna Blum, author of \u003ci\u003eThose Who Save Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Minna is a terrifically complex heroine: a little snobby, a little selfish and wholly sympathetic.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Like...Jonathan Safran Foer and Dara Horn. [A] wondrously strange story of Jewish immigration.\" --\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This mythic rendition of the American immigrant narrative...finds the wondrous in the ordinary and vividly depicts the complex collisions between the Old World and the New.\" --\u003ci\u003eMore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLeaving Lucy Pear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of V.\u003c\/i\u003e She is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, One Story, Ploughshares, Slate, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003eMORE.\u003c\/i\u003e Coeditor with Eleanor Henderson of \u003ci\u003eLabor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, Solomon previously worked as a journalist for National Public Radio. She was born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8 x 6.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 06, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47266542321913,"sku":"9781594485350","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/lRJSR0BmBd9781594485350.webp?v=1768851915","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-little-bride-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}