{"product_id":"sister-noon-isbn-9780452283282","title":"Sister Noon","description":"\u003cb\u003eLoosely based in historical fact, \u003ci\u003eSister Noon\u003c\/i\u003e is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Jane Austen Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eLizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or \"The Brown Ark\". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her.  It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSister Noon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A playful, mysterious, highly imaginative narrative set in the San Francisco of the 1890's...Robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected and never, ever, boring.”—Margot Livesey, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Sister Noon is funny, lyrical, spooky, inspired...A work of enchanting rumination-and one of the year's best reads.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Fowler's prose is full of shimmering melancholy, and a ruminative irony that brings her characters and their world alive in the most unexpected ways...a dazzling book.”—Jonathan Lethem\u003cb\u003eKaren Joy Fowler\u003c\/b\u003e, a PEN\/Faulkner and California Book Award winner, is the author of six novels (two of them \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestsellers) and four short story collections. She has been a Dublin IMPAC nominee, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302251745509,"sku":"NP9780452283282","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452283282.jpg?v=1767736691","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/sister-noon-isbn-9780452283282","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}