{"product_id":"her-first-american-paperback","title":"Her First American - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fortieth-anniversary edition of the unforgettable, eccentric \"truly original novel\" (\u003cem\u003eNewsday\u003c\/em\u003e), an evocative tale of race, romance, and the complexities of the human--experience, by the Pulitzer Prize finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking Black intellectual. At first, their relationship is fueled by lust, but also by a shared sense of displacement, with Ilka having fled her homeland and Carter struggling to find his place in a society steeped in racism and prejudice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an effort to assimilate and discover \"the real America,\" Ilka hurls herself into Carter's chaotic world, helping him navigate depression, alcoholism, and the ghosts of his past--and present. Will Ilka sacrifice her own needs--and future--for Carter's, or can she save him from the demons and traumas that are tearing him, and them, apart?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published forty years ago to universal acclaim, called \"wonderful\" by \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, and \"quiet, funny, slyly affecting\" in a starred \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e review, and now featuring a new introduction by acclaimed novelist Jeffery Renard Allen, \u003cem\u003eHer First American\u003c\/em\u003e cements its place among the great American novels and introduces a new generation of readers to the brilliant Lore Segal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102216261855,"sku":"9798893850505","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2q4zKe99_39798893850505.webp?v=1781079159","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/her-first-american-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}