{"product_id":"mad-prairie-stories-and-a-novella","title":"Mad Prairie: Stories and a Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eIn this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 01 October 2021\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny. A mother must choose between her children and her personal safety when her husband steadily excavates a moat around their country home, his very own little border wall. A Kansas politician grapples with international notoriety after an accident traps salt miners hundreds of feet underground-in the same salt mine where his brother was murdered. A bigot's newly transplanted liver gives him a taste for upbeat 1980s dance tracks while nudging him toward darker plans. And across several stories, we follow Miriam, a young overachiever hell-bent on leaving her home state who is lured back after college to teach elementary school in a rural community. In Culvert, Kansas, Miriam finds closed mouths and big secrets: the toxic waste storage for the battery factory leaches into the soil; the hog farm waste lagoons have sprung leaks; and her students, at turns psychic, lethargic, and aggressive, might not be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 242g                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 140 x 215 x 17 (mm)                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780820360744                                                      \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate McIntyre","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44096625770746,"sku":"9780820360744","price":23.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/4cdef7354943645819f7c3cae6153f1b.jpg?v=1636342502","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/mad-prairie-stories-and-a-novella","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}