{"product_id":"9781893996168","title":"Empire Settings","description":"\u003cp\u003eDanny Divan is a white teenager in South Africa under apartheid when he falls in love with the daughter of a black domestic servant. His family forces the two apart, and eventually his discomfort with the poisonous political atmosphere drives him from the country and to a new life in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin weeks of his arrival in Boston, Danny meets Tesseba, an offbeat but trusting artist who takes him in and marries him so he won’t be deported. Even as they live as a couple and build a life together, and as Danny prospers and his family joins him in exile, the memory of his forbidden first love does not fade. Twenty years later, when Danny returns to the \"new\" South Africa to salvage what he can of his family’s fortune, he sets out to discover what became of the girl he cannot forget. What he finds instead is the truest version of himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel traces the ambiguities of love within a family and for another, and tests the shakiness of memory. \u003ci\u003eEmpire Settings\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how love, and the memory of love, can be overwhelmed by changing assumptions about race and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Schmahmann\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Durban, South Africa, and is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Cornell Law School. He has also studied in India and Israel, and his publications include a short story in \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e and articles on legal issues. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts and practices law in Boston. This is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book has been optioned for a film by noted producer Danny Wilson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Pine Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051431444720,"sku":"9781893996168","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781893996168_p0.jpg?v=1763609992","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781893996168","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}