{"product_id":"9780312310363","title":"Nature Lessons","description":"\u003cp\u003eA first-rate, beautifully-written novel about an émigré living in the States who goes back to her native South Africa to look for her missing mother—a fictional debut that will be a draw both to critics and to readers of fine, accessible fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against a backdrop of South Africa's troubled history, natural beauty, and complex contemporary society, \u003ci\u003eNature Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting story of a forty-year-old woman, Kate Jensen, struggling to come to terms with the legacy of growing up with a mentally ill mother—including an inability to form long-term, committed relationships—and the guilt she feels as a white person who grew up during the apartheid era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeavened with humor and full of wisdom gained from a childhood where nature's lessons were all too visible to ignore, Lynette Brasfield has written a heartbreaking but ultimately affirming novel about growing up in the shadow of mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019770085616,"sku":"9780312310363","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312310363_p0.jpg?v=1763676523","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312310363","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}