{"product_id":"book-g120","title":"Winterland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Daphne Kouma offers a beautiful performance, meticulously detailing 8-year-old Anya's experiences. Kouma's credible Russian accents and outstanding character development make this a story filled with heart that listeners won't soon forget.\"- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudioFile Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfection has a cost . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s \u003ci\u003eAstonish Me\u003c\/i\u003e and Julia Phillips’s \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWinterland \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a previous era, shockingly pertinent today, shaped by glory and loss and finding light where none exists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen to be part of the famed USSR gymnastics program. So when eight-year-old Anya is tapped, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago her mother disappeared. Anya’s only confidant is her neighbor, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years in a Gulag camp—and who, unbeknownst to Anya, was also her mother’s confidant and might hold the key to her disappearance. As Anya moves up the ranks of competitive gymnastics, and as other girls move down, Anya soon comes to realize that there is very little margin of error for anyone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49355945902384,"sku":"BDg120","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/353617-g120-Square.jpg?v=1734400582","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-g120","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}