{"product_id":"9781956763331","title":"The Promise of a Normal Life","description":"Author: Rebecca Kaiser Gibson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781956763331\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 16 May 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 216\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Strout, and Katie Kitamura, the indelible journey of a quiet young woman-the \"silent person\" in the Seder-finding her way. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hailed as \"radiant and transporting\" (Margot Livesey), \u003ci\u003eThe Promise of a Normal Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a poet's debut novel, so evocative of life as lived that ittransports you to a time and place you can practically see, touch, and feel. The unnamed narrator is a fiercely observant, introverted Jewish-American girl who seems to exist in a private and separate realm. She's the child of a first-generation doctor and lawyer-whose own stories have the loud grandeur of family legend-in an America where Jews are excluded from the country club across the street. Her expectations for adulthood are often contradictory. In the changing landscape of the 1960s, she attempts to find her way through the rituals of life, her geography expanding across the country, across the ocean, and into multiple nations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Along the way, she meets a glamorous hairdresser on a cruise ship to Israel, loopy tarot-card-reading passengers, and Alice-in-Wonderland lawyers in Haifa. There's a blue-eyed all-American college boyfriend, a mystified tourist agent in the Lofoten Islands, a handsome eligible rabbi in LA, a righteous and self-absorbed MIT professor, and a clandestine, calculating lover in Boston. Eventually, she finds her own compass, but only after being swept to several distant shores by many winds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46875642429598,"sku":"ADS-9781956763331","price":47.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781956763331.jpg?v=1779754409","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781956763331","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}