{"product_id":"liberty-landing-gail-vida-hamburg-9798995108115","title":"Liberty Landing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevised 2026 Second Edition of the 2016 PEN-Bellwether Prize-recognized Novel \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping polyphonic, civic mosaic novel, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiberty Landing \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003enarrates the American experience of the twenty-first century through the lives of refugees, immigrants, and native-born citizens in Azyl Park, a small Midwestern town shaped as much by hope, reinvention, and transformation, as by fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Angeline Lalande, a journalist and historian, uncovers the true origins of the town's name, \"Azyl,\" bestowed by immigrant-hostile politicians in the nineteenth century, the town's elders initiate a fraught act of renaming. What begins as a civic gesture becomes a reckoning with history itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the renaming unfolds, the lives of Azyl Park's inhabitants intersect and diverge. They seek home and haven in one another, and sometimes encounter heaven and hell there as well. Each carries a singular journey to America, and each must confront how the nation transforms those who arrive and those who remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time Azyl Park is renamed, every character has lost or found something essential. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiberty Landing\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis a novel about family and fracture, love and loss, belonging and exile, where the personal and the political are inseparable, and where the American Experiment is revealed not as a fixed promise, but as a continuing moral test.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tenth anniversary edition includes granular, allegorical, and philosophical revisions; a new concluding chapter; and a reflective author afterword that meets this cultural moment--in 2026--about the American Experiment and Experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gail Vida Hamburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798995108115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mirare Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Gail Vida Hamburg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48460416286975,"sku":"9798995108115","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ed50a7d-d17d-43de-b3b7-2fc61c0d0d1f.jpg?v=1777414609","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/liberty-landing-gail-vida-hamburg-9798995108115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}