{"product_id":"9780989622806","title":"Against My Dreams: An Immigrant's Story","description":"These engaging narrative poems are written in the voice of the author's grandmother, Gunnhild Olavsdatter Breland, daughter of a man who refuses to believe the earth is round. Born in 1894 in a tiny farm district in the mountains of southern Norway, she follows her older sister to America in 1913, settling in New York City, a remarkable contrast to the landscape of her childhood. Gunnhild knows no English and has about a year of schooling, gained when the schoolmaster made his annual rounds carrying the schoolbooks on his back. \u003cp\u003eAn exploration of an immigrant's life that spans the Twentieth Century, this is a piece of the American story. It's also the story of a particular woman, marginalized by gender, national origin, mental illness and social class, who weaves folktale and Old Country wisdom with her own unique practicality and hard-won truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Linda Strever","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035953774832,"sku":"9780989622806","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780989622806_p0.jpg?v=1763894449","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780989622806","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}