{"product_id":"this-side-of-the-divide-claire-vaye-watkins-9781936097241","title":"This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Baobab Press, in coordination with the University of Nevada, Reno's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, comes This Side of the Divide: Stories, the first anthology in a literary series attempting to capture the newness, vastness, territoriality and sense of transience alive in the American West. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet west of the Continental Divide, these narratives skillfully demonstrate the beauty, austerity, and danger of the untouched wilderness, delight in the mutual ease and asphyxiation of the hyper-urban and chart the interstitial spaces of the developing and the abandoned. Inhabiting the West's richly varied landscapes, the characters in these stories provide a glimpse of the social and cultural diversity on display in these regions. Among these 15 stories, gathered from rising literary voices, a single mother struggles to maintain her individuality while raising an autistic son; a cathartic hike brings an unsuspecting widow face-to-face with her own mortality; a man injured in a train wreck questions his existence as he blindly wanders the desert; an aging cowboy rides the highways astride his magnificent horse, a final remnant of a fleeting era; Sasquatch looks for love in all the wrong places; and a divorcee tries to reconcile her present with her past, her heart with her head.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePositioning the voices of emerging authors alongside acclaimed writers such as Tobias Wolff, Brian Evenson and Nona Caspers, these collected stories, at turns hilarious, frightening, and devastating, showcase the variety of identity, amalgam of voice and depth of character that make the American West such a truly brilliant, literary mosaic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors include Tobias Wolff, Maile Meloy, Brian Evenson, Melinda Moustakis, Nona Caspers, Douglas W. Milliken, David Gillette, Miranda Schmidt, Michelle Willms, Andrea Lani, Leah Griesmann, Vanessa Hua, Cathy Warner, Mark Maynard, Aharon Levy, Sian Griffiths, L.L. Madrid, Kirk Wilson, Ashley Davidson, Carl Beideman, E.G. Willy, Shelley Blanton-Stroud, and Linda Lenhoff.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claire Vaye Watkins, Tobias Wolff, Nona Caspers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936097249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936097241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baobab Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Claire Vaye Watkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991214850303,"sku":"9781936097241","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1fb2602-f183-49ce-a593-5dcffaabaf56.jpg?v=1683309101","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-side-of-the-divide-claire-vaye-watkins-9781936097241","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}