{"product_id":"blue-desert","title":"Blue Desert","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBlue Desert\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCelia Jeffries\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781578690442\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRootstock Publishing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2021 IPNE Finalist, Literary Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2021 Women's Book Awards Sarton Finalist, Historical Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlice George is a headstrong young British woman who finds herself living among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world faces the catastrophe of World War I, the Tuareg continue to crisscross the Sahara as a matrilineal society in which the men are veiled and the women hold property-a world in which anything can happen. It is a world well suited to eighteen-year-old Alice, who discovers a life she could never live in corseted England. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1917, Alice returns home to a world completely alien to the one she left in the Sahara. Her silence about that life is finally broken sixty years later when she receives a telegram announcing Abu has died in the desert. \"Who is Abu?\" her husband asks. \"My lover,\" she replies. Thus, begins a weeklong journey of revelation as Alice lays bare her secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan Alice face her demons and open her heart more fully to the life she once lived in the Sahara-a life she has hidden from her husband and herself? \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue Desert\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a story of exile, family secrets, and the power of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Rootstock Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Blue Desert | Celia Jeffries | Paperback | 9781578690442 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1640849","offer_id":48753929912472,"sku":"1640849","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71GBSqrS24S.jpg?v=1774069110","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/blue-desert","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}