{"product_id":"half-a-heart-rosellen-brown-9780312278304","title":"Half a Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving story about estrangement and intimacy, race and privilege, identity and belonging from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBefore and After\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMiriam Vener feels trapped in the comfortable white middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston during the 1980s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her biracial daughter born in Mississippi in the sixties when Miriam was a civil rights activist. Hot tempered, sensitive, manipulative and deeply hurt at her mother's disappearance from her life, Ronnee has been raised by her father, a formerly brilliant college professor who forbade her to see her white mother. \u003ci\u003eHalf a Heart\u003c\/i\u003e charts the emotionally fraught terrain of the mother and daughter's reunion and Ronnee's divided sense of self and loyalty. With which family, and which race, does she identify? How does all this affect her relationships with her newly discovered half-sister, her white boyfriend, and the father she is rebelling against?\u003ci\u003e Half a Heart \u003c\/i\u003eis a searingly honest novel of public and private ideals betrayed and hopes reignited by one of our foremost novelists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosellen Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312278306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312278304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.93d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/27\/2001 pg. 20","brand":"Rosellen Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054455189759,"sku":"9780312278304","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97edd021-7dc8-453d-8cf3-079552b71883.jpg?v=1685030076","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/half-a-heart-rosellen-brown-9780312278304","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}