Our Lady Of The Prairie
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Our Lady Of The Prairie
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Summary
For Phillipa Maakestad - theatre professor and mother to a troubled, volatile daughter - life is finally, miraculously, calm. What better moment, then, to fall headlong into a passionate affair, fly off to France with her new lover, and effectively take a match to her life on the Iowa prairie?
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Our Lady Of The Prairie by Thisbe Nissen
As gripping as it is hilarious. -- Vanity FairI devoured this novel . . . It just made my whole being vibrate and hum with the impossible, inevitable business of loving other people. -- Leslie Jamison, New York Times best-selling author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering
For Phillipa Maakestad--theater professor and mother to a troubled, volatile daughter--life is finally, miraculously calm. What better moment, then, to fall headlong into a passionate affair, fly off to France with her new lover, and effectively take a match to her life on the Iowa prairie?
As she steps back to survey the damage and determine her way forward, Phillipa must contend with a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her otherwise docile husband. Which is to say: the damage is not easily contained, and the path ahead is not clear.
Thisbe Nissen offers up a fever-pitched, bitingly funny novel about a woman's quest to find her place in her own story. Our Lady of the Prairie is a bravura performance--a twister sweeping through the heart of the land and the land of the heart.
Wonderfully witty. -- Chicago Review of Books
Brazen, sexy, and whip-smart. -- Refinery29
Thisbe Nissen is the author of Our Lady of the Prairie, Osprey Island, The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook, The Good People of New York, and Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night. She teaches at Western Michigan University and lives in rural Michigan with her husband, writer Jay Baron Nicorvo, and their son, cats, and chickens.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781328507983 |
| ISBN 10 | 132850798X |
| Title | Our Lady Of The Prairie |
| Author | Thisbe Nissen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2019-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |