{"product_id":"bride-of-new-france-a-novel-9780393073379","title":"Bride of New France: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBride of New France: A Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e by Desrochers, Suzanne. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780393073379.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Canadian bestseller, this richly imagined novel is about a young French woman sent to settle in the New World. Transporting readers from cosmopolitan seventeenth-century Paris to the Canadian frontier, this vibrant debut tells of the struggle to survive in a brutal time and place. Laure Beausejour has been taken from her destitute family and raised in an infamous orphanage to be trained as a lace maker. Striking and willful, she dreams of becoming a seamstress and catching the eye of a nobleman. But after complaining about her living conditions, she is sent to Canada as a fille du roi, expected to marry a French farmer there. Laure is shocked by the primitive state of the colony and the mingling of the settlers with the native tribes. When her ill-matched husband leaves her alone in their derelict hut for the winter, she must rely on her wits and her clandestine relationship with an Iroquois man for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985325944885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393073378","price":30.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393073379_01923986-c115-49b0-9813-86ae77232b1e.jpg?v=1778690553","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bride-of-new-france-a-novel-9780393073379","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}