{"id":62186,"date":"2021-11-11T21:16:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62186"},"modified":"2021-11-11T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:18:00","slug":"house-arrest-a-novel-2nd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62186","title":{"rendered":"House Arrest, A Novel (2nd Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Arrest, A Novel (2nd Edition)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Red Hen Press<\/a>
\n2014-09-01
\n216 pages
\n6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-59709-418-4<\/p>\n

Ellen Meeropol<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Home care<\/a> nurse Emily Klein usually loves her work. But her new assignment, prenatal visits to a young woman under house arrest for the death of her toddler daughter during a Solstice<\/a> ceremony, makes her uneasy. Maybe it\u2019s Pippa Glenning\u2019s odd household and the house arrest<\/a> monitor. Or the court involvement that reminds Emily of her parents\u2019 political activism and her father\u2019s imprisonment. But when she can\u2019t get out of the assignment, Emily is determined to do right by her high-profile and unconventional patient.<\/p>\n

Pippa\u2019s racially mixed Family of Isis is in turmoil. Without Tianthe cult leader and Pippa\u2019s lover, who is in jail awaiting trial for the deaths of two toddlers, the group struggles to keep the household and their Tea Room business functioning. If Pippa follows the rules of her house arrest, she may be allowed to keep her baby, but as the pregnant woman in the family it\u2019s her duty to dance for Isis at the upcoming winter Solstice<\/a> ceremony. To escape the house arrest without being caught, she needs Emily\u2019s help.<\/p>\n

Despite their differences, Emily and Pippa\u2019s friendship grows. Emily\u2019s friends, her cousin Anna with whom she lives, Anna\u2019s ex-husband Sam who shares in caring for their young daughter Zoe with spina bifida<\/a>, her best friend Gina, all warn Emily that Pippa is trouble. When her grandfather dies, Emily reluctantly agrees to accompany Anna to the island in Maine<\/a> where she was sent to live when her father went to prison. On the island, Emily begins to grapple with her parents? choices a generation earlier.<\/p>\n

At home, the media hypes the Frozen Babies Case. Anti-cult sentiment in the city escalates to angry protests and increasing violence. As the winter Solstice approaches, both Emily and Pippa make decisions about their responsibilities to their families, their communities, and to each other\u2013 decisions that put their lives, and Pippa\u2019s unborn baby\u2013 in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

Set in Springfield, Massachusetts<\/a> and on an island in Penobscot Bay<\/a>, the story is told from the alternating points of view of Emily, Pippa, Sam, and Gina. House Arrest<\/em> explores the meaning of family loyalty when beliefs conflict, and questions the necessity of sometimes breaking rules to serve justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“House Arrest” explores the meaning of family loyalty when beliefs conflict, and questions the necessity of sometimes breaking rules to serve justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,414,8,15,820,20],"tags":[32344,2381,32341,32345],"class_list":["post-62186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-religion","category-usa","tag-ellen-meeropol","tag-maine","tag-red-hen-press","tag-springfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62188,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62186\/revisions\/62188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}