{"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\/products\/schroder-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}