{"product_id":"in-the-between-brice-particelli-9780892555468","title":"In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIncluding contributions by Roxane Gay, Alice Hoffman, Benjamin Alire S疇nz, Shivana Sookdeo, and Bryan Washington. \u003cem\u003eIn the Between\u003c\/em\u003e presents characters of differing and mixed cultural backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ableness, some affected by urban gentrification or the decline of their rural town--all striving to forge a future in today's divided America. Masterful and boldly intimate, these stories urge us to embrace a complex understanding of who we are as a nation and who we can be as individuals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther contributors are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maria Anderson, Ryka Aoki, Joy Baglio, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Nancy Fulda, Vanessa Hua, Bryan Hurt, Phil Klay, Mister Loki, Casey Robb, Rion Amilcar Scott, Akhil Sharma, and Robert Anthony Siegel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eTo meet her immigrant parents' expectations, a daughter fakes her way into a top university and finds the only way out is through revenge.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA strait-laced Black man, an accountant who is repeatedly mistaken for a drug dealer, decides to track down and get to know his double.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA trans woman considers her new femininity in relation to her activist lesbian friend and her grandmother, who fled from her homeland in war-torn Vietnam.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn American soldier in Fallujah suffers from PTSD after he covers for his buddy who shoots an Iraqi boy.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA girl anguishes over choosing to have an abortion amidst questions of environmental destruction.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAfter a father disappears into the forest, will his grown son live in their dilapidated trailer and wash dishes in a restaurant forever or will he leave their shrinking logging town?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brice Particelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0892555467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780892555468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Persea Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.80d","brand":"Brice Particelli","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044981797119,"sku":"9780892555468","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c83d8f6b-aa38-4d8f-ab5a-05499720490f.jpg?v=1684976035","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-between-brice-particelli-9780892555468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}