{"product_id":"foreign-ground-kate-kasten-9780692091623","title":"Foreign Ground: Stories","description":"The people in these eight stories all travel across the divide between the familiar and the foreign. For some it is a geographical journey, for others it's psychological. In most it's both. In this arresting collection, a survivor of the Chinese Cultural Revolution arrives forty years later at a U.S. university, where his ability to teach in English is tested. A small town's butterfly sanctuary conjures for an old woman disturbing memories of the Mayan ruins at Tikal and the civil war in Guatemala. A German bride makes the crossing from the smoke-stained city of her birth to the presumed paradise of 1913 Honolulu. A young family from the green farmland of the Midwest becomes lost in the arid mountains of New Mexico. A child raised in the shadow of Buchenwald ends up as a soldier in the jungles of Vietnam. These and other stories evoke a keen empathy with characters caught in confounding circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Kasten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692091629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692091623\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Kasten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001","brand":"Kate Kasten","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435639451903,"sku":"9780692091623","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_108736a0-ec69-4710-820a-9e6909e0ee70.jpg?v=1777151708","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/foreign-ground-kate-kasten-9780692091623","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}