{"product_id":"american-woman-a-novel-isbn-9780060542221","title":"American Woman: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Susan Choi. . . proves herself a natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability. I couldn’t put \u003cem\u003eAmerican Woman\u003c\/em\u003e down, and wanted when I finished it to do nothing but read it again.”  —Joan Didion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA novel of impressive scope and complexity, “\u003cem\u003eAmerican Woman\u003c\/em\u003e is a thoughtful, meditative interrogation of…history and politics, of power and racism, and finally, of radicalism.” (\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e), perfect for readers who love Emma Cline’s novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Girls.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Woman\u003c\/em\u003e explores the psychology of the young radicals, the intensity of their isolated existence, and the paranoia and fear that undermine their ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eOn the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thought-provoking meditation on themes of race, identity, and class, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Woman\u003c\/em\u003e explores the psychology of the young radicals, the intensity of their isolated existence, and the paranoia and fear that undermine their ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“With uncompromising grace and mastery, Susan Choi renders the intimate moments which bring to life a tale of prodigious sweep.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brilliant … Choi’s insightful understanding, vivid description, lyrical use of language and deft dialogue make it an overall reading pleasure.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOregonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A brilliant read … astonishing in its honesty and confidence AMERICAN WOMAN is a haunting book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A hypnotic, winding route through the scorched emotional landscape of 1974 … Choi’s prose radiates intelligence as she traces circles around Jenny and Pauline - near enough that you can feel their warmth, but not so close that you’d ever nail them down.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoy Press, Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Prepare to be held hostage by Susan Choi’s mesmerizing AMERICAN WOMAN.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting … Choi has the rare gift of bringing such notorious moments of history back to life and making them altogether new.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In the manner of Don DeLillo’s \u003cem\u003eLibra\u003c\/em\u003e or Joyce Carol Oates in \u003cem\u003eBlack Water\u003c\/em\u003e…[Choi] takes us straight into one of the strangest segments of our ever surreal American dream life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What I find so genuinely exhilarating about Choi’s project is her old-fashioned intrepidness, her desire to plunder history without apology in order to recover its heart.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinna Proctor, BookForum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deeply impressive: confident, historically astute, psychologically persuasive … beautiful and disturbing… a work of real achievement.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Egan, Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Susan Choi [is] a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability. I couldn’t put American Woman down, and wanted when I finished it to do nothing but read it again.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoan Didion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Masterfully plotted ….\u003cem\u003eAmerican Woman \u003c\/em\u003eis that rarest of creations, a political novel that gives equal weight to its characters’ inner and outer lives.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An amazing sense of control …[and] a compelling exactness…fantasy confronts fantasy in the confusion that gives rise to love, to hatred, to politics. And to gunshots.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJay Cantor, Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[AMERICAN WOMAN] takes a hard-eyed look at American idealism, and yet its imaginative abundance its fascination with self invention and its portrayal of the landscape as a living, breathing presence provide a quintessentially American sense of possibility.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Historical sweep and startling particular shrewdness … Choi has written a fascinating portrait of dangerous fragility.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An artful, insightful meditation on the radical impulse … Jenny’s wrenching struggle to come to terms with what she’s done makes the book resonate with compassion and regret …. 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