{"product_id":"florida-9780810151505","title":"Florida","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2004 National Book Award  Florida is the portrait of the artist as a young woman  an orphans story full of loss and wonder  a familiar tale told in original language. Alice Fivey  fatherless at age seven  is left in the care of her relatives at ten when her love-wearied mother loses custody of her and submits to the sanitarium and years of psychiatric care. A namesake daughter locked in the orphans move-around life  she must hold still while the seamstress pins her into someone not her mother. But they share the same name  so she is her mother  isnt she?  Alice finds consolation in books and she herself is a storyteller who must build a home for herself word by right word. Florida is her story  recalled in brief scenes of spare beauty and strangeness as Alice moves from house to house  ever further from the desolation of her mothers actions  ever closer to the meaning of her experience. In this most elegiac and luminous novel  Schutt gives voice to the feast of memory  the mystery of the mad and missing  and above all  the life-giving power of language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67907115122741,"sku":"ByrdShop_0810151502","price":103.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780810151505.jpg?v=1793893164","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/florida-9780810151505","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}