{"product_id":"black-road-paperback","title":"Black Road - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNancy Zafris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Road\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e unfolds in a small Ohio town, with one high school and one celebrated football team and one jumbo marching band. When the bad-boy star quarterback and his friends go too far one night with one of their pranks, a car crash severely injures two other students. The consequences of the crash and the court trials that follow reverberate through the town, reaching beyond the local community in haunting, almost surreal ways as the larger world seems to be turned upside down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the details leading up to the crash are revealed bit by bit, a surprising number of people are implicated the outsider teenager who lives alone in a trailer next to the Amish farm where the crash happened; a high school teacher who fights to bring goodness and beauty to young lives; an Indian doctor and her school-aged daughter who hopes to follow her brother to Harvard; a Japanese exchange student.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Watching from behind everything is an actual Greek chorus broken loose in time, Apollo and Artemis, lost souls trekking through the modern world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Zafris published four previous books of fiction: \u003ci\u003eThe People I Know\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction and the Ohioana Library Association award for best book of fiction; \u003ci\u003eThe Metal Shredders\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book; \u003ci\u003eLucky Strike\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eHome Jar\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short stories named one of the year's ten best books by The \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to her own work, Zafris long served as the series editor for the annual Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. Prior to that she served as the fiction editor of the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She also was instrumental in developing the generative model for the Kenyon Summer Writers Workshops, where summer after summer she led sessions in fiction writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693608243263,"sku":"9781609531508","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f8ff7b6ffa709633f66627335bc43b60.webp?v=1764999419","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/black-road-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}