{"product_id":"glory-days-paperback-2","title":"Glory Days - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelissa Fraterrigo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017 Finalist for Literary Fiction, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest Fiction Books of 2017 by \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of 19 Books You Should Read This September by \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe small plains town of Ingleside, Nebraska, is populated by down-on-their-luck ranchers and new money, ghosts and seers, drugs and greed, the haves and the have-nots. Lives ripple through each other to surprising effect, though the connections fluctuate between divisive gulfs and the most intimate closeness. At the center of this novel is the story of Teensy and his daughter, Luann, who face the loss of their land even as they mourn the death of Luann's mother. On the other end of the spectrum, some townspeople find enormous wealth when developers begin buying up acreages. When Glory Days--an amusement park--is erected, past and present collide, the attachment to the land is fully severed, and the invading culture ushers in even darker times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGlory Days\u003c\/i\u003e Melissa Fraterrigo combines gritty realism with magical elements to paint an arrestingly stark portrait of the painful transitions of twenty-first-century, small-town America. She interweaves a slate of gripping characters to reveal deeper truths about our times and how the new landscape of one culture can be the ruin of another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Fraterrigo\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder and executive director of the Lafayette Writers' Studio in Lafayette, Indiana. She is the author of a collection of short fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Longest Pregnancy\u003c\/i\u003e. For more information about the author, visit melissafraterrigo.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43429018107971,"sku":"9781496201324","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store7994.com\/products\/glory-days-paperback-2","provider":"STORE 7994","version":"1.0","type":"link"}