{"product_id":"9781480445444","title":"Women and Children First : Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Reading [this book] is like driving down the road with a companion who is so smart and funny and insightful that her conversation transforms the landscape\" (Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres).\n\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cbr\u003e The twelve \"meticulously observed\" stories of Women and Children First showcase New York Times-bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Francine Prose at her finest—offering a glimpse into the lives of men and women searching for connection and meaning in a world that often seems pre-programmed for absurdity (The New York Times).\n\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cbr\u003e An adult daughter struggling to understand her father's newfound Hasidic faith, an alcoholic trying to improve himself by fasting, a housewife enrolled in the New Consciousness Academy, a French literature professor who's begun to fear Madame Bovary, and a young woman seeking direction from a Tibetan master in the company of neurotic, overeager followers—these are the achingly, hilariously real people who inhabit these \"wise and witty\" stories (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48934801866987,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":34.77,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781480445444","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}