{"product_id":"maude-9781962834735","title":"Maude","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1969, a young Greek Fulbright scholar arrives in Minneapolis and walks down a freezing Dinkytown street in search of a wine opener. Behind the door of a fading white house with Corinthian columns, she meets Maude Hart-a sharp, eccentric, deeply private woman living in the basement of her family's former grandeur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat encounter becomes a lifelong friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaude\u003c\/em\u003e is a warm, vivid memoir of friendship, memory, and the hidden lives that shape us. Set against the cultural upheaval of Dinkytown and the University of Minnesota in the late 1960s and after, Helen Electrie Lindsay brings to life a vanished world of boardinghouses, antiwar protests, students, immigrants, old money in decline, and the intimate rituals of coffee, conversation, recipes, and trust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the story is Maude herself: witty, generous, mysterious, wounded by loss, and impossible to forget. As the years pass, Helen comes to see not only Maude's charm and humor, but also her loneliness, her resilience, and the quiet courage it took to preserve dignity in a rapidly changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than a memoir, \u003cem\u003eMaude\u003c\/em\u003e is a loving portrait of an extraordinary woman and a disappearing Minneapolis-an elegy for old Dinkytown, and a testament to the friendships that become family. For readers who love personal histories, women's stories, and books that preserve the soul of a place, \u003cem\u003eMaude\u003c\/em\u003e is intimate, haunting, and deeply human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Calumet Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781962834735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Helen Electrie Lindsay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53458930892981,"sku":"9781962834735","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781962834735.jpg?v=1791297542","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/maude-9781962834735","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}