{"product_id":"pearl-9781400078073","title":"Pearl","description":"On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving Pearl has never been interested in politics-nor in the Catholicism her mother rejected years before. What, then, is driving her to martyr herself? Shaken by this mystery, Maria and her childhood friend (and Pearl's surrogate father), Joseph Kasperman, both rush to Pearl's side. As Mary Gordon tells the story of the bonds among them, she\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etakes us deep into the labyrinths of maternal love, religious faith, and Ireland's tragic history. \u003ci\u003ePearl\u003c\/i\u003e is a grand and emotionally daring novel of ideas, told with the tension of a thriller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400078073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.30w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/23\/2006 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/17\/2007 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mary Gordon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034327937205,"sku":"9781400078073","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_307b8398-4d16-43c6-ac5d-33d5d7a3a65d.jpg?v=1763593658","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pearl-9781400078073","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}