{"product_id":"9781631490453","title":"The Daughters: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this virtuosic debut, a world-class soprano seeks to reclaim her voice from the curse that winds through her family tree.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLulu can't sing. Since the traumatic birth of her daughter, the internationally renowned soprano hasn't dared utter a note. She's afraid that her body is too fragile and that she may have lost her talent to a long-dreaded curse afflicting all of the mothers in her family.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhen Lulu was a child, her strong-willed grandmother Ada filled her head with fables of the family's enchanted history in the Polish countryside. A fantastical lore took hold—an incantatory mix of young love, desperate hope, and one sinister bargain that altered the family's history forever. Since that fateful pact, Ada tells Lulu, each mother in their family has been given a daughter, but each daughter has exacted an essential cost from her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAda was the first to recognize young Lulu's transcendent talent, spotting it early on in their cramped Chicago apartment, then watching her granddaughter ascend to dizzying heights in packed international concert halls. But as the curse predicted, Lulu's mother, a sultry and elusive jazz singer, disappeared into her bitterness in the face of Lulu's superior talent—before disappearing from her family's life altogether. Now, in the early days of her own daughter's life, Lulu now finds herself weighing her overwhelming love for her child against the burden of her family's past.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn incandescent prose, debut novelist Adrienne Celt skillfully intertwines the sensuous but precise physicality of both motherhood and music. She infuses \u003cem\u003eThe Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e with the spirit of the \u003cem\u003erusalka\u003c\/em\u003e, a bewitching figure of Polish mythology that inspired Dvorák's classic opera. The result is a tapestry of secrets, affairs, and unimaginable sacrifices, revealing a family legacy laced with brilliance, tragedy, and most mysterious and seductive of all—the resonant ancestral lore that binds each mother to the one that came before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037085647088,"sku":"9781631490453","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631490453_p0.jpg?v=1763672102","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631490453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}