{"product_id":"her-first-american","title":"Her First American","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fortieth-anniversary edition of the unforgettable, eccentric \"truly original novel\" (Newsday), an evocative tale of race, romance, and the complexities of the human--experience, by the Pulitzer Prize finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking Black intellectual. At first, their relationship is fueled by lust, but also by a shared sense of displacement, with Ilka having fled her homeland and Carter struggling to find his place in a society steeped in racism and prejudice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn an effort to assimilate and discover \"the real America,\" Ilka hurls herself into Carter's chaotic world, helping him navigate depression, alcoholism, and the ghosts of his past--and present. Will Ilka sacrifice her own needs--and future--for Carter's, or can she save him from the demons and traumas that are tearing him, and them, apart?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst published forty years ago to universal acclaim, called \"wonderful\" by People magazine, and \"quiet, funny, slyly affecting\" in a starred Kirkus review, and now featuring a new introduction by acclaimed novelist Jeffery Renard Allen, Her First American cements its place among the great American novels and introduces a new generation of readers to the brilliant Lore Segal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Her First American","offer_id":46279087128773,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/979-8-89385-050-5.jpg?v=1779754965","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/her-first-american","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}