{"product_id":"in-a-perfect-world-a-novel-isbn-9780061766114","title":"In a Perfect World: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003ea Perfect World\u003c\/em\u003e reveals astonishing and tender insight into human nature\u003cbr\u003ewhile exposing a terrifying, yet believable, world I’d never before imagined.\u003cbr\u003eThis story will grasp onto your heart before swiftly carrying you away.” —Jessica Anya Blau, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Summer of\u003cbr\u003eNaked Swim Parties\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn a Perfect World\u003c\/em\u003e is critically acclaimed writer Laura Kasischke’s novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices we make when we have no choices left. Kasischke, the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Life Before Her Eyes, \u003c\/em\u003etells the story of Jiselle, a young flight attendant who’s just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren. But as a mysterious new illness spreads rapidly throughout the country, she begins to realize that her marriage, her stepchildren, and their perfect world are all in terrible danger . . .\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThis is the way the world ends...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a fairy tale come true when Mark Dorn—handsome pilot, widower, tragic father of three—chose Jiselle to be his wife. The other flight attendants were jealous: She could quit now, leaving behind the million daily irritations of the job. (Since the outbreak of the Phoenix flu, passengers had become even more difficult and nervous, and a life of constant travel had grown harder.) She could move into Mark Dorn's precious log cabin and help him raise his three beautiful children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut fairy tales aren't like marriage. Or motherhood. With Mark almost always gone, Jiselle finds herself alone, and lonely. She suspects that Mark's daughters hate her. And the Phoenix flu, which Jiselle had thought of as a passing hysteria (when she had thought of it at all), well . . . it turns out that the Phoenix flu will change everything for Jiselle, for her new family, and for the life she thought she had chosen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom critically acclaimed author Laura Kasischke comes a novel of married life, motherhood, and the choices we must make when we have no choices left.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“It is not enough to say that Kasischke’s language is ‘poetic,’ a word that has come to mean ‘pretty.’ Rather, her writing does what good poetry does—it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it. . . . [T]he language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of facade and reflection.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kasischke’s verses walk that perfect Plathian line between the everyday—making macaroni and cheese, getting pulled over for speeding—and the eternal, the plainspoken and the lyrical, the comfortable and the abyss of loss that lies just beneath it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From its haunting opening image to its riveting end, this is a tale of beauty, resilience, love, sacrifice, and even grace found in the most unlikely of places. In a truly ‘perfect world’ every book I read would inspire me like this one.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatrina Kittle, author of The Kindness of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“IN A PERFECT WORLD  reveals astonishing and tender insight into human nature while exposing a terrifying, yet believable, world I’d never before imagined.  This story will grasp onto your heart before swiftly carrying you away.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Kasischke]writes with worldly-wise profundity and sudden beauty but also sly humor . . .We’re helplessly drawn in by a slew of burning questions, with this one foremost: When can we expect a sequel…or is that nothing but a doomed hope?” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kasischke finds beauty amid the apocalypse in her timely seventh novel . . . Startling, sometimes violent images combine with strikingly dispassionate narration to create a fictional world where terror, beauty and chaos walk hand in hand.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a doomsday book in the form of a finely observed domestic drama, showing how dysfunctional relationships shift and soften in response to the looming menace . . . The reader may well come away with the odd, exhilarating feeling that a spell has both been cast and broken.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887905894629,"sku":"NP9780061766114","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061766114.jpg?v=1730227705","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/in-a-perfect-world-a-novel-isbn-9780061766114","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}