Our Lady Of The Prairie by Thisbe Nissen

'Thisbe Nissen's Our Lady of the Prairie is an exploration of what it means to be a levelheaded individual who suddenly has a life that is anything but level. reveal something that run much deeper and darker than mere extramarital passion.'

'From the moment I saw Lucius Bocelli,' the first sentence reads, 'I wanted to go to bed with him.' One problem: The narrator, 50-year-old Phillipa Maakestad, is already married. 'While most marriage stories are concerned with the first flush of wedded life, Nissen's new novel, set during the 2004 Bush-Kerry election, skips straight to the end. Refinery 29, 'The Best Books Of 2018 We Can't Wait To Read This Month' 'Brazen, sexy, and whip smart: We adored this ode to the power and spirit of feisty Midwestern women.' Chicago Review of Books, 'The Most Anticipated Fiction Books of 2018' 'Wonderfully witty.A satirical take on the serene Midwestern life and an insightful, comical look at a woman whose life starts to unravel at breakneck speed.' Vanity Fair, ' Our Lady of the Prairie, the Novel That Makes Hay of the Recent Political Past' Our Lady of the Prairie captures Nissen’s curiosity about the people she has lived around and encountered.' 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Set in the seething political climate of a contentious election,Thisbe Nissen's new novel is sexy, smart, and razor-sharp-a freight train barreling through the heart of the land and the land of the heart. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage.

After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny’s wedding. There, Phillipa must endure (among other things) 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 heretofore docile husband. In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad-long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter-grapples with a life turned upside down.

A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises-and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself

Our Lady Of The Prairie by Thisbe Nissen