{"product_id":"morocco-isbn-9781685892852","title":"Morocco","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this intricate tale, a woman untangles her enduring bond with an heiress who she is still trying to understand…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChicago, the turn of the 21st century. Our narrator—always there and never entirely present—recounts her decades-long relationship with the heiress, Katherine Stern. Through the years since boarding school, she has seen Katherine as a daughter who wants for nothing but respect from her psychotherapist father, as a woman with a kind, but fortune-hunting fiancée, and as a mystery even more confounding than the gothic horror stories she evaluates from the slush pile at her job. Sometimes, despite their estrangement, she has even seen Katherine as a friend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the classic story \u003ci\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/i\u003e by Henry James, Norah Labiner reimagines the prolific tale. Moving through wintery Michigan avenue to the creeping mansions of the rich to the world of melodrama, ghosts, and girls. \u003ci\u003eMorocco \u003c\/i\u003econfronts the ambiguity of memory, the horrors of history, and what it means, or does not mean, to read a book and tell a story.\u003cb\u003eNorah Labiner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eOur Sometime Sister\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMiniatures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGerman for Travelers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLet the Dark Flower Blossom \u003c\/i\u003e(Coffee House Press). She has received a Minnesota Book Award for Literary Fiction and currently lives in Minnesota.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233402859749,"sku":"NP9781685892852","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/morocco-isbn-9781685892852","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}