{"product_id":"better-times-sara-batkie-9781496207876","title":"Better Times: Short Stories","description":"Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in \u003ci\u003eBetter Times\u003c\/i\u003e focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In \u003ci\u003eBetter Times\u003c\/i\u003e Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women's lives when the wider world is wrapped up in other matters: a father and daughter, separated by time and an ocean, dreaming of each other; a girl in a home for \"troubled women\" imagining the journey of the first dog in space; a phantom breast returning to haunt a woman after her mastectomy; a young woman giving birth to a litter of eggs. Such are the ordinary women weathering extraordinary circumstances in \u003ci\u003eBetter Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Divided into three sections covering the recent past, our current era, and the world to come, the stories gathered here--with characters stymied by loneliness, motherhood, illness, even cataclysmic climate change--interrogate the idea that so-called better times ever existed, particularly for women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Batkie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496207874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496207876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/19\/2018","brand":"Sara Batkie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989915336959,"sku":"9781496207876","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b78f377f-9ed3-4212-bf6b-2e5dd119446e.jpg?v=1683302047","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/better-times-sara-batkie-9781496207876","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}