{"product_id":"9781328663054","title":"Our Lady Of The Prairie","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises—and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad—long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter—grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny’s wedding. There, Phillipa must endure (among other things) a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in the seething political climate of a contentious election,Thisbe Nissen's new novel is sexy, smart, and razor-sharp—a freight train barreling through the heart of the land and the land of the heart. ","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133948215536,"sku":"9781328663054","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781328663054_p0.jpg?v=1763707798","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781328663054","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}