{"product_id":"pushed-to-shore-kate-gadbow-9781889330815","title":"Pushed to Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2001 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This novel's poignancy, I think, comes from the paradoxical confrontation between innocence and experience these Asian strivers are caught in--at the same time that they are rendered childlike by ignorance of their new culture, we know they have been singed and seared, and therefore secretly toughened. Immigration is such a significant phenomenon right now that this tension between competency and confusion, maturity and infantilization is an enormously fecund subject for a novelist with a well-developed sense of irony.\"--From the Foreword by Rosellen Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an essay written for his ESL class, a young student describes his flight from Vietnam at the age of 12, in a fishing boat with three friends. They were beaten by Thai pirates, fell faint with hunger and pain, until they were \"pushed to the kind shore by a finger of God.\" The phrase evokes an overriding metaphor for this resonant first novel by Kate Gadbow, in which a community of Vietnamese and Hmong refugees struggles to maintain balance between the world they fled and the one they are currently negotiating in Missoula, Montana. Gadbow meshes the lives of these refugees with that of the book's narrator Janet Hunter, a teacher struggling to manage contemporary life, with a failed marriage and a string of disappointments haunting her own past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a deceptively simple prose style that reads like easy conversation, and with an admirable lack of sentimentality, Kate Gadbow has written a remarkable novel depicting the clash of cultures and the difficult realities inherent to a world given only to constant change, where the harbor of a kind shore seems frustratingly out of reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Gadbow \u003c\/b\u003edirects the Creative Writing Program and teaches undergraduate fiction classes at the University of Montana in Missoula, where she lives with her husband, journalist Daryl Gadbow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Gadbow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1889330817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781889330815\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 6.04w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2002 pg. 1415\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/02\/2002 pg. 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2002 pg. 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2003 pg. 847\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2003 pg. 59","brand":"Kate Gadbow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47474257985791,"sku":"9781889330815","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01c19ad5-0002-4a6d-b1d8-13daf593404f.jpg?v=1762315696","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pushed-to-shore-kate-gadbow-9781889330815","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}