{"product_id":"9781466802117","title":"Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister's tragic death prompts a woman's unbidden journey into her turbulent African past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile childhood in colonial Rhodesia—now Zimbabwe—behind her. Then one Sunday morning came a terrible phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed on a lonely road in Zambia. Suddenly unable to ignore her longing for her homeland, she decides she must confront the ghosts of her past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy Kann's is a personal journey, set against a backdrop as exotic as it is desolate. From a privileged colonial childhood of mansions and servants, her story moves to a young adulthood marked by her father's death, her mother's insanity, and the viciousness of a bloody civil war. Through unlikely love she finds herself in the incongruous sophistication of Manhattan; three children bring the security of suburban America, until the heartbreaking vulnerability of the small child her sister left behind in Africa compels her to return to a continent she hardly recognizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith honesty and compassion, Kann pieces together her sister's life, explores the heartbreak of loss and belonging, and finally discovers the true meaning of home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129431867632,"sku":"9781466802117","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466802117_p0.jpg?v=1769890781","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466802117","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}