{"product_id":"our-kind-book-kate-walbert-9780743245593","title":"Our Kind","description":"From the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gardens of Kyoto\u003c\/i\u003e comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and attitudes of a group of women--once country-club housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the rules. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOur Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, Kate Walbert masterfully conveys the dreams and reality of a group of women who came into the quick rush of adulthood, marriage, and child-bearing during the 1950s. Narrating from the heart of ten companions, Walbert subtly depicts all the anger, disappointment, vulnerability, and pride of her characters: Years ago we were led down the primrose lane, then abandoned somewhere near the carp pond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow alone, with their own daughters grown, they are finally free--and ready to take charge: from staging an intervention for the town deity to protesting the slaughter of the country club's fairway geese, to dialing former lovers in the dead of night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWalbert's writing is quick-witted and wry, just like her characters, but also, in its cumulative effect, moving and sad. \u003ci\u003eOur Kind \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant, thought-provoking novel that opens a window into the world of a generation and class of women caught in a cultural limbo.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50136021598481,"sku":"CIN0743245598VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51721080733969,"sku":"CIN0743245598G","price":3.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B002K573G2.jpg?v=1750881610","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/our-kind-book-kate-walbert-9780743245593","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}