{"product_id":"radiant-daughter-patricia-grossman-9780810151994","title":"Radiant Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Radiant Daughter, award-winning novelist Patricia Grossman follows \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea Czech-American family for twenty-seven years, beginning in suburban \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChicago in 1969 and ending in Brooklyn, in seaside \"Little Odessa,\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein 1996. Though the novel begins as a traditional assimilation story-- \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimmigrant parents, \"native\" children, and the conflicts one might expect--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit evolves into a highly particular and harrowing tale surrounding \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe descent of Elise Blazek, the family's brightest star. Radiant Daughter \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis also a story of translation--between generations, from the Czech of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrena and Stepan, to the \"American\" of the children, and finally to the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussian that is Elise's academic specialty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRadiant Daughter explores all that is human, from the most self-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edestructive behavior to the highest forms of commitment and self-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esacrifice. Even at her lowest moments, Irena never loses her fierce \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elove for the daughter who has traveled so utterly beyond her reach. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Elise, the future will always be complicated: a precarious balance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebetween periods of insight, bursts of accomplishment, and the abyss \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof her illness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReminiscent, on the one hand, of the meticulously constructed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emother-daughter dynamic in Carol Shields's Unless and, on the other, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the anarchic real-life experience of Big and Little Edie Beale in Grey \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGardens, Grossman's moving narrative breaks new ground in exploring \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea dangerous turn in the complex bond between a mother and her adult \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echild. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Grossman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810151995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810151994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Triquarterly Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.60w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/28\/2010","brand":"Patricia Grossman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44077660045567,"sku":"9780810151994","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b4c08e4b-f94a-4d35-92a8-f8506d366709.jpg?v=1685471139","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/radiant-daughter-patricia-grossman-9780810151994","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}