{"product_id":"9781480484504","title":"Difficult Daughters: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet against the tumult of the 1947 Partition, Manju Kapur’s acclaimed first novel captures a life torn between family, desire, and love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe one thing I had wanted was not to be like my mother.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirmati is the eldest of eleven children, born to a respectable family in Amritsar. Her world is shaken when she falls in love with a married man. Charismatic Harish is a respected professor and her family’s tenant. Virmati takes up with Harish and finds herself living alongside his first wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Amritsar and Lahore and narrated by Virmati and her daughter, Ida, a divorcée on a quest to understand and connect with her departed mother, \u003ci\u003eDifficult Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning tale of motherhood, love, and finding one’s identity in a nation struggling to discover its own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book (Eurasia Region) and shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in India.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144641691888,"sku":"9781480484504","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480484504_p0.jpg?v=1769894142","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480484504","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}