Our lady of the prairie / Thisbe Nissen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nissen, Thisbe, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

FICTION / Contemporary Women.

FICTION / Literary.

FICTION / Family Life.

Adultery--Fiction.

Adultery.

Women college teachers--Fiction.

Women college teachers.

Weddings--Fiction.

Weddings.

Iowa--Fiction.

Iowa.

Local Subjects:

FICTION / Contemporary Women.

FICTION / Literary.

FICTION / Family Life.

Genre:

Fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Romance fiction.

Love stories.

Physical Description:

357 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Summary:

"A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises--and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself...In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad--long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter--grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. There, Phillipa must endure (among other things) a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage. Set in the seething political climate of a contentious election,Thisbe Nissen's new novel is sexy, smart, and razor-sharp--a freight train barreling through the heart of the land and the land of the heart"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Nissen, Thisbe, 1972- author. Our lady of the prairie

ISBN:

9781328662071

1328662071

OCLC:

1005795801