{"product_id":"the-fall-of-alice-k-9781571310897","title":"The Fall of Alice K.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeventeen-year-old Alice Marie Krayenbraak is beautiful, witty, a star student, and a gifted athlete. On the surface, she has it all. But in Alice's hometown of Dutch Center, Iowa, nothing is as it seems. Behind the façade of order and tidiness, the family farm is failing. Alice's mother is behaving strangely amid apocalyptic fears of Y2K. And her parents have announced their plans to send her special-needs sister Aldah away. On top of it all, the uniformly Dutch Calvinist town has been rattled by an influx of foreign farm workers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's the fall of senior year, and Alice now finds herself at odds with both family and cultural norms when she befriends and soon falls in love with Nickson Vang, the son of Hmong immigrants. Caught in a period of personal and community transformation, Alice and Nickson must navigate their way through vastly different traditions while fighting to create new ones of their own. Funny and provocative, amusing and unsettling, \u003cem\u003eThe Fall of Alice K.\u003c\/em\u003e marks a watershed moment in the publishing career of author, Jim Heynen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571310897\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/16\/2012 pg. 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2012 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012 pg. 118\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jim Heynen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51616339361973,"sku":"9781571310897","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a5090e1e-b84e-436c-b28e-dc9f022b1890.jpg?v=1756189046","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-fall-of-alice-k-9781571310897","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}