{"product_id":"a-stranger-in-the-kingdom","title":"A stranger in the kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Howard Frank Mosher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is \"reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird...Absorbing\" (New York Times).\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town's new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage--and is subsequently murdered--suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the town's accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \"Set in northern Vermont in 1952, Mosher's tale of racism and murder is powerful, viscerally affecting and totally contemporary in its exposure of deep-seated prejudice and intolerance... [A] big, old-fashioned novel.\"--Publishers Weekly\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \"A real mystery in the best and truest sense.\"--Lee Smith, New York Times Book Review\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt; A Winner of the New England Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47085082443945,"sku":"PHBK-9780618240104","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/view_archive_5b679dd5-82c7-48a5-bc71-782a4f9077b4.jpg?v=1778727019","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/a-stranger-in-the-kingdom","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}