{"product_id":"9780140283631","title":"Where She Went","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Incisive, eerie, sensual, and threatening.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The linked stories in Kate Walbert’s debut collection \u003ci\u003eWhere She Went\u003c\/i\u003e examine the very contemporary predicament of a family without geographic roots. The first half of the book chronicles the life of Marion Clark, a company wife who repeatedly packs the household and accompanies her husband around the globe with a “melancholy view before her of what seemed like endless houses with endless garages and endless kitchen windows.” In the stories that follow, her adult daughter Rebecca continues the family legacy of wandering, traveling farther and farther afield, seeking to fulfill her mother’s thwarted aspirations. But Rebecca’s world is one viewed with a slightly off-kilter eye, one that invokes Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, Mohammed’s faithful followers at Topkapi Palace, as well as the landscapes of Italy and Jamaica, Istanbul, and Paris. This mother and daughter, each uniquely of her own generation, remain locked, firmly, in longing—Marion with little free will, and Rebecca with an excess of free spirit.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From a patchwork of communication that unfolds between Marion and Rebecca, Walbert creates a narrative that is both fractured and lyrical. \u003ci\u003eWhere She Went\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic for out times—an odyssey that takes home on the road.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010639085808,"sku":"9780140283631","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140283631_p0.jpg?v=1763642353","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140283631","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}