{"product_id":"bitter-almonds-9781609450892","title":"Bitter Almonds","description":"From the pen of Laurence Cossé, author of \u003ci\u003eA Novel Bookstore\u003c\/i\u003e, comes this delightful story about friendship across racial and economic barriers set in contemporary paris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eÉdith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. How can a person living in Paris in the third millennium possibly survive without knowing how to read or write? How does she catch a bus, or pay a bill, or withdraw money from the bank? Why, it's unacceptable! She thus decides to become Fadila's French teacher. But teaching something as complex as reading and writing to an adult is rather more challenging that she thought. Their lessons are short, difficult, and tiring. Yet, during these lessons, the oh-so-Parisian Édith and Fadila, an immigrant from Morocco, begin to understand one other as never before, and from this understanding will blossom a surprising and delightful friendship. Édith will enter into contact with a way of life utterly unfamiliar to her, one that is unforgiving at times, but joyful and dignified.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Europa Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609450892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/29\/2013\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Laurence Coss\u0026#195;\u0026#169;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715440537781,"sku":"9781609450892","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bitter-almonds-9781609450892","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}