{"product_id":"riverine-angela-palm-9781555977467","title":"Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere But Here","description":"\u003cp\u003eAngela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, her house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising water. From her bedroom window, Palm watched the neighbor boy and loved him in secret, imagining a life with him even as she longed for a future that held more than a job at the neighborhood bar. For Palm, caught in this landscape of flood and drought, escape was a continually receding hope. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough she did escape, as an adult Palm finds herself drawn back, like the river, to her origins. But this means more than just recalling vibrant, complicated memories of the place that shaped her, or trying to understand the family that raised her. It means visiting the prison where the boy that she loved is serving a life sentence for a brutal murder. It means trying to chart, through the mesmerizing, interconnected essays of \u003ci\u003eRiverine\u003c\/i\u003e, what happens when a single event forces the path of her life off course.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angela Palm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555977464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555977467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/06\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2016 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/19\/2016","brand":"Angela Palm","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985125343487,"sku":"9781555977467","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4e8ea62f-3599-4eb9-bf20-ee0a58da118d.jpg?v=1683275694","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/riverine-angela-palm-9781555977467","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}