{"title": "Pearl", "covers": [1472915], "subject_places": ["N.Y.) Upper West Side (New York", "Northern Ireland", "Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.)"], "first_publish_date": "2004", "key": "/works/OL17970W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL23368A"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Protest movements", "Hunger strikes", "Fiction", "Americans", "Mothers and daughters", "Foreign Students", "Students, Foreign", "Large type books"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Maria Meyers receives a call from the State Department on Chri stmas night 1998 that her daughter, Pearl, who is studying abroad at Trinity College, Dublin has chained herself to the flagpole outside the American Embassy and learns that Pearl is on a hunger strike."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-08T18:30:11.514899"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-10T17:36:10.884460"}}