{"product_id":"mudwoman-9780062095633","title":"Mudwoman","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMudgirl is a child abandoned in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate--or destiny. After her rescue, the well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous history behind the barrier of their middle-class values. But the bulwark of the present proves surprisingly vulnerable to the agents of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeredith \"M.R.\" Neukirchen is the first woman president of an Ivy League university. Her commitment to her career and moral fervor for her role are all-consuming, but when confronted with challenges to her leadership she could not have anticipated, the fierce idealism and intelligence that delivered her from a more conventional life threaten to undo her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA reckless trip thrusts M.R. into an unexpected psychic collision with Mudgirl and the life M.R. believes she has left behind. A powerful exploration of the enduring claims of the past, \u003cem\u003eMudwoman\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a psychic ghost story and an intimate and compelling portrait of a highly complex contemporary woman cracking the glass ceiling at enormous personal cost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115756052631,"sku":"9780062095633","price":1313.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780062095633.webp?v=1767271032","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mudwoman-9780062095633","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}