Our Lady of the Prairie

<p>"As gripping as it is hilarious." -- <em>Vanity Fair</em><br /><br />"I devoured this novel . . . It just made my whole being vibrate and hum with the impossible inevitable business of loving other people." -- Leslie Jamison <em>New York Times</em> best-selling author of <em>The Empathy Exams</em> and <em>The Recovering</em><br /><br />For Phillipa Maakestad--theater professor and mother to a troubled volatile daughter--life is finally miraculously calm. What better moment then to fall headlong into a passionate affair fly off to France with her new lover and effectively take a match to her life on the Iowa prairie?<br />As she steps back to survey the damage and determine her way forward Phillipa must contend with a wedding-day tornado a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her otherwise docile husband. Which is to say: the damage is not easily contained and the path ahead is not clear.<br />Thisbe Nissen offers up a fever-pitched bitingly funny novel about a woman's quest to find her place in her own story. <em>Our Lady of the Prairie</em> is a bravura performance--a twister sweeping through the heart of the land and the land of the heart.<br /><br />"Wonderfully witty." -- <em>Chicago Review of Books</em><br /><br />"Brazen sexy and whip-smart." -- <em>Refinery29</em></p>