{"product_id":"her-first-american-by-lore-segal-9798893850505","title":"Her First American","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\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":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288489476332,"sku":"9798893850505","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4487203488915.jpg?v=1770557672","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/her-first-american-by-lore-segal-9798893850505","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}