{"product_id":"a-blessed-child-paperback","title":"A Blessed Child - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLinn Ullmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA captivating story of sisterhood and of the inescapable chords of childhood memory. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A hauntingly beautiful novel of family ties, \u003ci\u003eA Blessed Child\u003c\/i\u003e takes on what it means to be old, what it means to have loved selfishly, deeply and -- equally - to no longer love.\" - A.M. Homes, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mistress's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erika's bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnar's outcast state, she suddenly turns away--a common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isak's family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-five years later, returning to Hammarsö to see their father--now eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile there--the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBold and starkly beautiful, \u003ci\u003eA Blessed Child\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting parable of innocence lost.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinn Ullmann is a graduate of New York University, where she studied English literature and began work on a Ph.D. She returned to her native Oslo in 1990 to pursue a career in journalism. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper. She lives in Oslo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52606530781466,"sku":"9780307277817","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/5604\/6618\/files\/X3WaSJX95M9780307277817.webp?v=1785325964","url":"https:\/\/j-s-five-and-dime.myshopify.com\/products\/a-blessed-child-paperback","provider":"J \u0026 S Five and Dime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}