{"product_id":"9780060530112","title":"The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels","description":"With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Grandmothers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo women, close friends, fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, promising a respectable old age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria and the Staveneys\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA poor black girl has a baby with the son of a liberal middle-class family and finds that her little girl is slowly being absorbed into the world of white privilege and becoming estranged from her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Reason for It \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCertain to appeal to fans of Shikasta and Memoirs of a Survivor, it describes the birth, flourishing, and decline of a culture long, long ago, but with many modern echoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Love Child\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA soldier in World War II, during the dangerous voyage to India around the Cape, falls in love on shore leave and remains convinced that a love child resulted from the wartime romance.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007088574704,"sku":"9780060530112","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060530112_p0.jpg?v=1763619758","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060530112","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}