{"product_id":"rerun-era-joanna-howard-9781944211677","title":"Rerun Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRerun Era\u003c\/i\u003e is a captivating, propulsive memoir about growing up in the environmentally and economically devastated rural flatlands of Oklahoma, the entwinement of personal memory and the memory of popular culture, and a family thrown into trial by lost love and illness that found common ground in the television. Told from the magnetic perspective of Joanna Howard's past selves from the late '70s and early '80s, \u003cem\u003eRerun Era\u003c\/em\u003e circles the fascinating psyches of her part-Cherokee teamster truck-driving father, her women's libber mother, and her skateboarder, rodeo bull-riding teenage brother.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIlluminating to our rural American present, and the way popular culture portrays the rural American past, \u003cem\u003eRerun Era\u003c\/em\u003e perfectly captures the irony of growing up in rural America in the midst of nationalistic fantasies of small town local sheriffs and saloon girls, which manifested the urban cowboy, wild west theme-parks, and The Beverly Hillbillies. Written in stunning, lyric prose, \u003cem\u003eRerun Era\u003c\/em\u003e gives humanity, perspective, humor, and depth to an often invisible part of this country, and firmly establishes Howard as an urgent and necessary voice in American letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanna Howard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1944211675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781944211677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McSweeney's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.20h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019 pg. 29","brand":"Joanna Howard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659524387071,"sku":"9781944211677","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rerun-era-joanna-howard-9781944211677","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}