{"product_id":"fatherland-1","title":"Fatherland","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin and Lora Brier, with three young children, possess all the trappings of a perfect life . . . except Martin is having yet another affair. Without warning, he abandons the family for his mistress and a new house on the other side of town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s, \u003cem\u003eFatherland\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths. While Martin's abandonment throws up new difficulties for bewildered Lora, a housewife, who must now find a way to nurture and provide for herself and children, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter, Josie, who struggles to come to term with his absence. \u003cem\u003eFatherland\u003c\/em\u003e follows Josie from this fateful event, across many decades and milestones and through the phases of her tenuous, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin--and the way she begins to move beyond their shared past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in Victoria Shorr's inimitable clean, spare prose, \u003cem\u003eFatherland\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful, layered novel of a family in the aftermath of deception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1324117559\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781324117551\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Shorr, Victoria\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Mar 2026)","offer_id":46081771143365,"sku":"9781324117551","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781324117551.jpg?v=1776048938","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/fatherland-1","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}