{"product_id":"mother-doll","title":"Mother Doll","description":"\u003cb\u003e*** BALCONES PRIZE FINALIST *** \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Prize-winning author Katya Apekina's \u003ci\u003eMother Doll\u003c\/i\u003e is a sharp, kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations of mothers and daughters \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Punctuated with Apekina's \"wry observations and wicked sense of humor\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eMother Doll\u003c\/i\u003e is a family epic and meditation on motherhood, immigration, identity, and war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Apekina's second novel \"is not only a harrowing examination of generational trauma, but a damn funny one\" (\u003ci\u003eVogue, \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of 2024). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a message from the other side. Zhenia's great-grandmother Irina, a Russian revolutionary, has approached him from a cloud of ancestral grief, desperate to tell her story and receive absolution from Zhenia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Irina begins her confession with the help of a purgatorial chorus of grieving Russian ghosts, Zhenia awakens to aspects of herself she hadn't been willing to confront. But does either woman have what the other needs to understand their predicament? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Or will Irina be stuck in limbo, with Zhenia plagued by ancestral trauma, and her children after her?","brand":"Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661867352354,"sku":"9781419770951","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_45b052e1-6120-4ced-b2de-167dd3d75d15.jpg?v=1779455330","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/mother-doll","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}