{"product_id":"schroder-9781455512133","title":"Schroder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder -- a first-generation East German immigrant -- adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSCHRODER\u003c\/strong\u003e relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later to Lake Champlain, Vermont, with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life to understand -- and maybe even explain -- his behavior: the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood, and the many identities we take on in our lives -- those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Twelve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781455512133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.81w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2012 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/22\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2012 pg. 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Bea Big Book Guide\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2012 pg. 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/11\/2013 pg. 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/03\/2013 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/10\/2013 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/29\/2013 pg. 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2013 pg. 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/04\/2013 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2013 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/08\/2013 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Amity Gaige","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52491342020789,"sku":"9781455512133","price":30.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_cf19db55-06ed-4d76-8953-f5fe92e7b75e.jpg?v=1777995836","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/schroder-9781455512133","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}