{"product_id":"call-it-horses-by-jessie-van-eerden-9780983740599","title":"Call It Horses","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Dzanc Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet in small-town West Virginia in the twilight of the eighties, \u003ci\u003eCall It Horses\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of three women—niece, aunt, and stowaway—and an improbable road trip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrankie is an orphan (or a reluctant wife). Mave is an autodidact (or the town pariah). Nan is an artist (or the town whore). Each separately haunted, Frankie, Mave, and Nan—with a hound in tow—set out in an Oldsmobile Royale for Abiqui and the desert of Georgia O'Keeffe, seeking an escape from everything they've known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrankie records the journey in letters to her Aunt Mave's dead lover, a linguist named Ruth, sketching out her troubled life and her complicated relationship with Mave, who became her guardian when Frankie was orphaned at sixteen. Slowly, one letter at a time, Frankie exposes the ruins of herself and her fellow passengers: things that chase them, that died too soon, that never lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith lush prose and brutal empathy, Frankie tells Ruth—and herself—the story of liminality experienced by a woman standing just outside of motherhood, fulfillment, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711100965100,"sku":"9780983740599","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6470973482538.jpg?v=1754183304","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/call-it-horses-by-jessie-van-eerden-9780983740599","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}