{"product_id":"9781328663054_our-lady-of-the-prairie","title":"Our Lady Of The Prairie","description":"“As gripping as it is hilarious.” — \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “I devoured this novel . . . It just made my whole being vibrate and hum with the impossible, inevitable business of loving other people.” — Leslie Jamison, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Recovering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e For Phillipa Maakestad—theater professor and mother to a troubled, volatile daughter—life is finally, miraculously calm. What better moment, then, to fall headlong into a passionate affair, fly off to France with her new lover, and effectively take a match to her life on the Iowa prairie?\u003cbr\u003e             As she steps back to survey the damage and determine her way forward, Phillipa must contend with a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her otherwise docile husband. Which is to say: the damage is not easily contained, and the path ahead is not clear.\u003cbr\u003e             Thisbe Nissen offers up a fever-pitched, bitingly funny novel about a woman’s quest to find her place in her own story. \u003cem\u003eOur Lady of the Prairie\u003c\/em\u003e is a bravura performance—a twister sweeping through the heart of the land and the land of the heart.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Wonderfully witty.” — \u003cem\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Brazen, sexy, and whip-smart.” — \u003cem\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Thisbe Nissen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46908499886229,"sku":"9781328663054","price":3.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781328663054_d29d726f-689f-48e0-8630-2e3f31e149ab.jpg?v=1776889863","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781328663054_our-lady-of-the-prairie","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}