Our Lady of the Prairie
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Book
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Description
A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises--and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad--long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter--grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. There, Phillipa must endure (among other things) a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have beena Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage. Set in the seething political climate of a contentious election,Thisbe Nissen's new novel is sexy, smart, and razor-sharp--a freight train barreling through the heart of the land and the land of the heart.
Call number in WMU's library
PS3564.I79 O95 2018
ISBN
978-1328662071
Publication Date
1-23-2018
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
City
Boston
Disciplines
Creative Writing
Citation for published book
Nissen, Thisbe. Our Lady of the Prairie. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, 2018. Print.
Recommended Citation
Nissen, Thisbe, "Our Lady of the Prairie" (2018). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 696.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/696