{"product_id":"9781455512140","title":"Schroder: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAttending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSCHRODER\u003c\/b\u003e relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later to Lake Champlain, Vermont, with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life to understand-and maybe even explain-his behavior: the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood, and the many identities we take on in our lives--those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128815239408,"sku":"9781455512140","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781455512140_p0.jpg?v=1769908386","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781455512140","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}