{"product_id":"stony-river-tricia-dower-9781935248866","title":"Stony River","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Dower's depiction of postwar family and small-town dysfunction is reminiscent of MacDonald's \u003ci\u003eThe Way the Crow Flies\u003c\/i\u003e. Pivotal events in Stony River were [also] inspired by a true crime.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A taut, compelling portrait of a small town's underbelly. With sinister imagery and crisp, evocative prose, Dower pulls back the cloak of 1950s 'innocence' to expose the ugly secrets that lie in wait, teeth grown sharp in the dark.\" --Billie Livingston, \u003ci\u003eOne Good Hustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Think \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e but even madder.\" --\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dower does an excellent job chronicling the formative years of her central trio in a coming-of-age story that effectively tackles heavy subjects including domestic abuse, mental illness, and rape.\" --\u003ci\u003eQuill\u0026amp;Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wasn't all poodle skirts and rock 'n' roll--in Stony River, the 1950s was a perilous time to come of age. Absent mothers, controlling fathers, teenage longing and small-town pretense abound, with the threat of violence all around: crazy fathers, dirty boys, strange men in strange cars, one dead girl, one never seen, and another gone missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTricia Dower\u003c\/b\u003e is a native of New Jersey. Her short fiction has been published in the US, Canada, and Portugal. She won \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 2010 fiction literary award and \u003ci\u003esubTerrain\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's 2015 Literary Awards for creative nonfiction. Her story collection \u003ci\u003eSilent Girl\u003c\/i\u003e (Inanna 2008) was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor Award and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. \u003ci\u003eStony River\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in Canada (Penguin, 2012) and shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tricia Dower\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1935248863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935248866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leapfrog Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Tricia Dower","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125596877055,"sku":"9781935248866","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5ee4242f-45d2-40ee-af4f-681a3e61dfcf.jpg?v=1687443514","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stony-river-tricia-dower-9781935248866","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}