{"product_id":"shelter-half-paperback","title":"Shelter Half - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol Bly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe real clue to this mystery lies in its title, referring to the half-tent an American infantryman once carried with him to the battlefield, and buttoned to someone else's half for mutual protection: a covert metaphor provisioned with foregiveness and trust.--\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Does loving-kindness to friends, family, town, and church cover your complicity in . . . distant wrongs? Carol Bly . . . is fully responsive to the evils done in our name and with our tacit consent.\"--Tobias Wolff, in the introduction to \u003ci\u003eMy Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What the reader will remember is Carol Bly's spiritual and moral intelligence as glimpsed through the valor of these vibrant characters.\"--Tess Gallagher, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA young woman's body lay undisturbed for a week in mid-November.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins \u003ci\u003eShelter Half\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel about a few people in a northern Minnesota town. Some of them--the town cop, the doctor, and a young couple in love--are smart enough to recognize cruelty that comes at them from huge organizations far outside the town limits. They are not chicken. They don't duck. If their nation and their world look grisly, they still do what they can for love and justice. They look out for one another. In the end, a retired US Brigadier General brings them a surprise about one of their best-loved townspeople.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Bly\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2007) is the author of \u003ci\u003eLetters from the Country\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tomcat's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChanging the Bully Who Rules the World\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e; several \u003ci\u003ePushcart Collections\u003c\/i\u003e, including the twenty-five-year anniversary edition\u003ci\u003e; The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train\u003c\/i\u003e (May 2008); and other journals. She lived in St. Paul and Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota. \u003ci\u003eShelter Half \u003c\/i\u003eis Carol Bly's first and only published novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol Bly is winner of the 2001 Minnesota Humanities Award for Literature, the University of Minnesota's Edelstein-Keller Distinguished Minnesota Author in 1998-99, and the Minnesota Women's Press Favorite Woman Author for 2000. She has an honorary degree from Northland College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 245\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 8.92 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Minnesota Book Award (2009)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (2008)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702140735551,"sku":"9780977945863","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/777ab7e6c95285521d5213c358a3540f.webp?v=1765023302","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/shelter-half-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}