{"product_id":"the-little-bride-isbn-9781594485350","title":"The Little Bride","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of V.\u003c\/i\u003e, an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut in South Dakota with his two teenage sons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe country is desolate, the work treacherous. And most troubling, Minna finds herself increasingly attracted to her older stepson. As a brutal winter closes in, the family's limits are tested, and Minna, drawing on strengths she barely knows she has, is forced to confront her despair, as well as her desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e Best Seller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Evocative of Alice Munro, Amy Bloom, and Willa Cather, but fueled by Anna Solomon’s singular imagination . . . a masterful debut . . . embroidered with sage, beautiful writing on every page . . . marks the start of a long, fine, and important career.” —Jenna Blum, author of \u003ci\u003eThose Who Save Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Minna is a terrifically complex heroine: a little snobby, a little selfish and wholly sympathetic.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Like...Jonathan Safran Foer and Dara Horn. [A] wondrously strange story of Jewish immigration.” —\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This mythic rendition of the American immigrant narrative...finds the wondrous in the ordinary and vividly depicts the complex collisions between the Old World and the New.” —\u003ci\u003eMore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“An epic immigrant tale set on the Dakota prairie. . . . In this mythic rendition of the American immigrant narrative, Solomon's quirky prose finds the wondrous in the ordinary and vividly depicts the complex collisions between the old and new world.” —\u003ci\u003eMore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“In her emotionally honest debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Bride\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Solomon draws on an 1880s U.S. homesteading movement called Am Olam. Jewish newcomers were encouraged to settle out west as pioneers. The result wasn't some cheerful ‘little shtetl on the prairie,’ as Solomon's heroine discovers. Impoverished Minna Losk is a 16-year-old Jewish mail- order bride from Odessa and one of the more realistic pioneers depicted in recent historical fiction. Suffering hasn't hewn her into a plucky stereotype. Instead, she is someone the reader instantly empathizes with. She wants love, and ends up with a husband twice her age. She craves comfort, and ends up in a South Dakota one-room sod hut. A fascinating if sometimes bleak page turner.” —\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An engrossing slice of history. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Little Bride\u003c\/i\u003e offers a precious glimpse of the wondrously strange story of Jewish immigration evoked by Anna Solomon in her debut novel. Like other talented young Jewish-American novelists Jonathan Safran Foer and Dara Horn, Solomon fruitfully imagines faraway times and climes in \u003ci\u003eThe Little Bride\u003c\/i\u003e—Europe's Odessa and America's Dakota Territory in the late 19th century, specifically—and creates a winning 16-year-old heroine in Minna Losk. . . . [A] moving debut.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Minna is a terrifically complex heroine: a little snobby, a little selfish and wholly sympathetic.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“This is a very intensely imagined book, an elegantly written pocket of forgotten history.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times–\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Time Traveler’s Wife \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHer Fearful Symmetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Evocative of Alice Munro, Amy Bloom, and Willa Cather, but fueled by Anna Solomon’s singular imagination, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Bride\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful debut.  This tale of a Jewish mail-order bride’s homestead experience on the Great Plains is embroidered with sage, beautiful writing on every page and marks the start of a long, fine, and important career.” —Jenna Blum, author of \u003ci\u003eThose Who Save Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Little Bride\u003c\/i\u003e is a love story. An immigrant’s story. But most important: a story of hope and courage in the face of overwhelming odds. Anna Solomon has written a heart-wrenchingly good novel, with vivid characters and an epic frontier landscape that will haunt you long after you've turned the final page.” —Hannah Tinti, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Thief\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Anna Solomon has created a singular heroine whose story of dashed dreams and eventual triumph is a wise and timeless wonder. Intense and gorgeous, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Bride\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an unparalleled snapshot of the West.” —Jennifer Gilmore, author of \u003ci\u003eGolden Country \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Something Red\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A lush, gorgeous first novel. Immerse yourself in its world.” —Irina Reyn, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Happened to Anna K.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An affecting tale of 19th century Jewish settlers who find their America not on the noisy streets of the Lower East Side, but on the boundless, desolate Dakota Plains. A stirring love story and an unsettling, original portrait of the New World.” —Sana Krasikov, author of \u003ci\u003eOne More Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLeaving Lucy Pear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of V.\u003c\/i\u003e She is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, One Story, Ploughshares, Slate,\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003eMORE.\u003c\/i\u003e Coeditor with Eleanor Henderson of \u003ci\u003eLabor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, Solomon previously worked as a journalist for National Public Radio. She was born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300288418021,"sku":"NP9781594485350","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594485350.jpg?v=1767740263","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-little-bride-isbn-9781594485350","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}