Our lady of the prairie / Thisbe Nissen.
| Author/creator | Nissen, Thisbe, 1972- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] |
| Description | 357 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | "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 been a 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, theater professor Phillipa Maakestad returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. She faces a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a 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. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Nissen, Thisbe, 1972- Our lady of the prairie. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 9781328663054 |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Humorous fiction. |
| Genre/form | Romance fiction. |
| Genre/form | Humorous fiction. |
| Genre/form | Love stories. |
| Genre/form | Humorous fiction. |
| Genre/form | Romance fiction. |
| LCCN | 2017044908 |
| ISBN | 9781328662071 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1328662071 (hardcover) |