{"product_id":"bohemian-girl-paperback","title":"Bohemian Girl - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTerese Svoboda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung Harriet's father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric Indian--and her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part \u003ci\u003eTrue Grit\u003c\/i\u003e, Harriet's story of her encounter with the dark and brutal history of the American West is a true original. When she escapes the strange mound-building obsession of her Pawnee captor, Harriet sets off on a trek to find her father, only to meet with ever-stranger characters and situations along the way. She befriends a Jewish prairie peddler, escapes with a chanteuse, is imprisoned in a stockade and rescued by a Civil War balloonist, and becomes an accidental shopkeeper and the surrogate mother to an abandoned child, while abetting the escape of runaway slaves. \u003cbr\u003eA picaresque in the American vein, Terese Svoboda's new novel is the Bohemian answer to Willa Cather's iconic \u003ci\u003eMy Ántonia\u003c\/i\u003e. Lifting the shadows off an entire era of American history in one brave girl's quest to discover who she is, \u003ci\u003eBohemian Girl\u003c\/i\u003e gives full play to Svoboda's prodigious talents for finding the dark and the strange in the sunny American story--and the beauty and the hope in its darkest moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerese Svoboda is the author of five volumes of poetry and four novels, including \u003ci\u003eTin God\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska 2006); a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eTrailer Girl and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (available in a Bison Books edition); and a nonfiction book, \u003ci\u003eBlack Glasses like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.55 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761352704288,"sku":"9780803226821","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/83bcf0d0fd6001a4c90893f72c9908c1.webp?v=1780205297","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bohemian-girl-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}