{"product_id":"9781616200312","title":"Missing Lucile: Memories of the Grandmother I Never Knew","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning author’s reconstruction of her grandmother’s life “takes us deep into the lore of history as well as family” (Sven Birkerts).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father’s terrible melancholy: He’d lost his mother when he was a little boy. Decades later, with her dad now elderly and ailing, she decides to try to uncover the woman who continues to haunt him.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Every family has a missing person, someone who died young or disappeared, leaving a legacy of loss. Aided by vintage photographs and a box of old keepsakes, Berne sets out to fill in her grandmother’s silhouette and along the way uncovers her own foothold in American history.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Lucile Berne, née Kroger, was a daughter of Bernard Henry Kroger, the archetypal American self-made man, who at twenty-three established what is today’s $76 billion grocery enterprise. From her turn-of-the-century Cincinnati childhood to her college years at Wellesley, her tenure as treasurer of her father’s huge company, her stint as a relief worker in devastated France, her marriage to a professional singer, and the elusive, unhappy wealthy young matron she became, her granddaughter paints a portrait of a woman and her times, and discovers the function of family history: “to explain what is essentially inexplicable—how we came to be ourselves.”","brand":"Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139149676784,"sku":"9781616200312","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616200312_p0.jpg?v=1763850400","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616200312","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}