{"title":"Amity Gaige","description":"Amity Gaige is the author of four previous novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, Schroder,  and Sea Wife. Sea Wife was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Mark Twain American Voice Award. Schroder was also a New York Times Notable Book and a best book of 2013 according to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, among others, and was shortlisted for UK's Folio Prize in 2014. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages. In 2018, Amity was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her family and teaches creative writing at Yale.","products":[{"product_id":"schroder-paperback","title":"Schroder - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Schroder relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later to Lake Champlain, Vermont, with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life to understand-and maybe even explain-his behavior: the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood, and the many identities we take on in our lives--those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101583872223,"sku":"9781455512126","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BKxnzde0-D9781455512126.webp?v=1781071769"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/amity-gaige.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}