{"product_id":"9781889330822","title":"Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"These beautiful stories freeze the sweep of the hands of the clock, they stop the beat of your heart, with the precision of their language and their generous emotion.\"—Frederick Busch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinked stories follow a Jewish-American family across several generations. Clara comes from a restrained, secretive family lending the book a taut narrative tension. The big secret—her husband’s adultery during World War II—is not revealed until the last story. Sandor’s prose is quiet, moving, psychologically acute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarjorie Sandor\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Night Gardener\u003c\/i\u003e (Lyons) and \u003ci\u003eA Night of Music \u003c\/i\u003e(Ecco). Her fiction has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize XIII\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Best of Beacon\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at Oregon State University in Corvallis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057917280496,"sku":"9781889330822","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781889330822_p0.jpg?v=1763607467","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781889330822","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}