{"product_id":"9781594485350","title":"The Little Bride","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLeaving Lucy Pear\u003c\/i\u003e, an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Solomon's new novel \u003ci\u003eLeaving Lucy Pear\u003c\/i\u003e is available now from Viking Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut in South Dakota with his two teenage sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe country is desolate, the work treacherous. And most troubling, Minna finds herself increasingly attracted to her older stepson. As a brutal winter closes in, the family's limits are tested, and Minna, drawing on strengths she barely knows she has, is forced to confront her despair, as well as her desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e Best Seller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Evocative of Alice Munro, Amy Bloom, and Willa Cather, but fueled by Anna Solomon’s singular imagination . . . a masterful debut . . . embroidered with sage, beautiful writing on every page . . . marks the start of a long, fine, and important career.” —Jenna Blum, author of \u003ci\u003eThose Who Save Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Minna is a terrifically complex heroine: a little snobby, a little selfish and wholly sympathetic.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Like...Jonathan Safran Foer and Dara Horn. [A] wondrously strange story of Jewish immigration.” —\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This mythic rendition of the American immigrant narrative...finds the wondrous in the ordinary and vividly depicts the complex collisions between the Old World and the New.” —\u003ci\u003eMore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036707176688,"sku":"9781594485350","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781594485350_p0.jpg?v=1763815088","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781594485350","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}