{"product_id":"private-way-9781496230492","title":"Private Way","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2023 Nebraska Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 2015, when cyberbullies disrupt her life in Southern California, Vivi Marx decides to cut her cord with the internet and take her life offline for a year. She flees to the one place where she felt safe as a child—with her grandmother in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nevermind that her grandmother is long dead and she doesn’t know anyone else in the state. Even before she meets her new neighbors on Fieldcrest Drive, Vivi knows she’s made a terrible mistake, but every plan she makes to leave is foiled. Despite her efforts to outrun it, trouble follows her to Nebraska, just not in the ways she’d feared. With the help of her neighbors, Willa Cather’s novels, and her own imagination, Vivi finds something she hadn’t known she was searching for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderfully wise, vividly written, and deeply absorbing novel that delves into Willa Cather’s question about what is required of ‘a civilized society.’ By turns funny, reflective, and harrowing . . . \u003ci\u003ePrivate Way \u003c\/i\u003eis that rare novel that acknowledges the real hazards of civic life while also celebrating its transformative power.”—Suzanne Berne, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dogs of Littlefield: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ladette Randolph carefully attends to quiet revelations. As with her previous evocative work, the seeming periphery of Nebraska centers the story as the state continues to transform, in unexpected places, for those who take the time to look.”—Gretchen E. Henderson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe House Enters the Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In richly evocative prose Ladette Randolph describes the triumphs and failures of Vivi’s new life offline. With its complicated characters and lovely evocations of Nebraska, \u003ci\u003ePrivate Way\u003c\/i\u003e is a surprising and utterly absorbing novel.”—Margot Livesey, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in the Field\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Vivi’s wished-for privacy is challenged by a community teeming with unforgettable characters. . . . Here, in the company of the novels of Willa Cather, Vivi endures a record-setting Nebraska winter that challenges her to abandon her usual mode of evasion and secrecy. And therein lies the heart of \u003ci\u003ePrivate Way\u003c\/i\u003e.”—Pamela Painter, author of \u003ci\u003eFabrications: New and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor's Note\u003cbr\u003e 1. Empty Houses\u003cbr\u003e 2. Pie Girl\u003cbr\u003e 3. No Empty Threats\u003cbr\u003e 4. Like Madness\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Spy in the Hinterland\u003cbr\u003e 6. How Mary Garlic Ruined Mary Garth for Me\u003cbr\u003e 7. Imaginary Family\u003cbr\u003e 8. Brain Fog\u003cbr\u003e 9. You’d Be So Pretty If Only\u003cbr\u003e 10. Gazetteer Nebraska\u003cbr\u003e 11. Tillie’s Wonderland\u003cbr\u003e 12. Give-Me-a-Break Potluck\u003cbr\u003e 13. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kills on Fieldcrest Drive\u003cbr\u003e 14. One Little Life\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Storm That Was a Mother to Me\u003cbr\u003e 16. Go-To Neighbor\u003cbr\u003e 17. Ivan the Czech Guy\u003cbr\u003e 18. Road Trip to Catherland\u003cbr\u003e 19. Thanksgiving in the Czech Capital of the USA\u003cbr\u003e 20. Where Ivan Outs Me\u003cbr\u003e 21. Maybe It’s a Ghost After All\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Part Where Ivan Brings a Pie\u003cbr\u003e 23. Our Non-Traditions\u003cbr\u003e 24. There’s Cold and Then There’s Cold\u003cbr\u003e 25. Bliss = Bill\u003cbr\u003e 26. Too Fine a Cut\u003cbr\u003e 27. Spring Clean Up, Spring Screw-Up\u003cbr\u003e 28. A Kolache Action\u003cbr\u003e 29. Chuck’s Not-So-Funny Tales of Sexual Humiliation\u003cbr\u003e 30. A Lady Lost\u003cbr\u003e 31. My Mortal Enemies\u003cbr\u003e 32. Pies4Peace\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409239744855,"sku":"9781496230492","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496230492.jpg?v=1730506098","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/private-way-9781496230492","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}