{"product_id":"amity-gaige-schroder-2014-paperback","title":"Amity Gaige: Schroder [2014] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e* Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2014 *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric Kennedy - in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchroder\u003c\/i\u003e relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later through the New England countryside with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amidst a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life in order to understand - and maybe even explain - his behaviour; the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gaige, Amity","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":55542912975187,"sku":"9780571296729","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gaige-amity-amity-gaige-schroder-2014-paperback-9780571296729-1263938431.jpg?v=1792625772","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/amity-gaige-schroder-2014-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}