{"product_id":"fatherland","title":"Fatherland","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin and Lora Brier, with three young children, possess all the trappings of a perfect life . . . except Martin is having yet another affair. Without warning, he abandons the family for his mistress and a new house on the other side of town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s, \u003cem\u003eFatherland\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths. While Martin's abandonment throws up new difficulties for bewildered Lora, a housewife, who must now find a way to nurture and provide for herself and children, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter, Josie, who struggles to come to term with his absence. \u003cem\u003eFatherland\u003c\/em\u003e follows Josie from this fateful event, across many decades and milestones and through the phases of her tenuous, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin--and the way she begins to move beyond their shared past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in Victoria Shorr's inimitable clean, spare prose, \u003cem\u003eFatherland\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful, layered novel of a family in the aftermath of deception.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victoria Shorr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52103455441197,"sku":"BS-8XD-117551","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/9781324117551-HD.jpg?v=1780285924","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/fatherland","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}