{"title":"Mary Morris","description":"MARY MORRIS is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novels Gateway to the Moon, The Jazz Palace, A Mother's Love, and House Arrest, and of nonfiction, including the travel classic Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone. Morris is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature and the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.","products":[{"product_id":"the-red-house-hardcover","title":"The Red House - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward-winning novelist Mary Morris weaves together an unsolved family mystery, a poignant coming-of-age story, and a little-known corner of World War II history in this lyrical novel of family, loss and, ultimately, love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThirty years ago, Laura's mother, Viola, went missing. She left behind her purse, her keys and her mysterious paintings of a red house. Viola was never found, and her family never recovered. Laura, an artist herself, held on to the paintings. On the back of each work, her mother scrawled in Italian, \"I will not be here forever.\" The family never understood what Viola meant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDecades later, at a crossroads in her marriage and her life, Laura returns to Italy, where her parents met after World War II. Laura spent the earliest years of her childhood there before the family moved to New Jersey and settled into an American dream that eventually became a nightmare. Viola, who claimed to be an orphan, staunchly refused to speak of her life before marriage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Italy, Laura finds herself on a strange scavenger hunt to solve the puzzle of her mother's lost years. She is certain that the paintings of the red house hold the answer to her mother's past and her search takes her from her hometown of Brindisi, deep into Puglia where she encounters a man who knew her mother and who illuminates little-known secrets of Italy's Second World War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending elements of true crime with settings that evoke Elena Ferrante, Laura follows her mother's trajectory as she ventures north to Naples, Turin and finally home. Along the way, she confronts the dark truth of her mother's story and at last makes sense of her own.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103204479199,"sku":"9780385544986","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BoVq31gOz39780385544986.webp?v=1781090484"},{"product_id":"the-jazz-palace-paperback","title":"The Jazz Palace - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoomtown Chicago, 1920s--a world of gangsters, musicians, and clubs. Young Benny Lehrman, born into a Jewish hat-making family, is expected to take over his father's business, but his true passion is piano--especially jazz. After dark, he sneaks down to the South Side to hear the bands play. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne night he is asked to sit in with a group. His playing is first-rate. The trumpeter, a black man named Napoleon, becomes Benny's friend and musical collaborator. They are asked to play at a saloon Napoleon has christened The Jazz Palace. But Napoleon's main gig is at a mob establishment, which doesn't take kindly to their musicians freelancing . As Benny and Napoleon navigate the highs and the lows of the Jazz Age, a bond is forged between them that is as memorable as it is lasting. Morris brilliantly captures the dynamic atmosphere and dazzling music of an exceptional era.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104505172191,"sku":"9781101872864","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7wz5mCr0IB9781101872864.webp?v=1781108461"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mary-morris.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}