{"product_id":"9780547346885","title":"The Real Minerva: A Novel","description":"Stunningly detailed, richly plotted, and emotionally engrossing, The Real Minerva is the story of three women forging their own paths in a Midwestern farming community. In 1923, as book-loving Penny enters adolescence, her mother, Barbara, pulls her out of school to send her to work. Destined to become a cleaning woman like her mother, Penny sees no escape from her bleak existence until a scandalous figure arrives in the town of Minerva, Minnesota: Cora, very pregnant, very headstrong, and very alone, has come to make a home on her grandfather's farm. Intrigued by this curious new resident, Penny sets out to work for Cora. Suspenseful and moving,The Real Minerva is a remarkable novel about the strength of women and the unexpected bonds that form between them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Sharratt is the author of the much-acclaimed debut, Summit Avenue, and the forthcoming novel The Vanishing Point. A born-and-bred Minnesotan, Sharratt drew on her mother’s and grandmother’s stories of Minnesota farm life in the early twentieth century for The Real Minerva. She now lives in Lancashire, England.\u003cbr\u003eThis e-book includes a sample chapter of ILLUMINATIONS.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122889572592,"sku":"9780547346885","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547346885_p0.jpg?v=1769896213","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547346885","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}