{"product_id":"our-kind-a-novel-in-stories-9780743245609","title":"Our Kind: A Novel in Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOur Kind: A Novel in Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e by Walbert, Kate. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780743245609.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and attitudes of a group of women—once country-club housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the rules.\n\nIn Our Kind, Kate Walbert masterfully conveys the dreams and reality of a group of women who came into the quick rush of adulthood, marriage, and child-bearing during the 1950s. Narrating from the heart of ten companions, Walbert subtly depicts all the anger, disappointment, vulnerability, and pride of her characters: \"Years ago we were led down the primrose lane, then abandoned somewhere near the carp pond.\"\n\nNow alone, with their own daughters grown, they are finally free—and ready to take charge: from staging an intervention for the town deity to protesting the slaughter of the country clubs fairway geese, to dialing former lovers in the dead of night.\n\nWalberts writing is quick-witted and wry, just like her characters, but also, in its cumulative effect, moving and sad. Our Kind is a brilliant, thought-provoking novel that opens a window into the world of a generation and class of women caught in a cultural limbo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SCRIBNER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924817608757,"sku":"ByrdShop_0743245601","price":27.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780743245609.jpg?v=1794141894","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/our-kind-a-novel-in-stories-9780743245609","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}