{"product_id":"wolf-bells-hardcover","title":"Wolf Bells - Hardcover","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\u003eLeni Zumas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eRed Clocks\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a biting, lyrical novel about an intergenerational group home run by an ex-musician determined to make a place for those without one\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On a bluff above a river rises The House, where elderly and disabled residents live alongside young people who help out in exchange for free rent. The community is led by a former punk singer who never wanted to be responsible for anyone yet now finds herself the caretaker of this precarious collection of lives. It's not a family, exactly, but it's got the complicated, sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious, dynamics of kinship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When two kids--Nola and her little cousin James--show up on The House's back porch in need of refuge, the whole experiment is thrown into question. All are welcome here, or that was the idea. But the authorities are looking for these children, and The House's finances are teetering on the edge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Zumas's long-anticipated third novel wrestles with America's crisis of care in a taut, aching, polyphonic tale that moves as fast as the crackling comebacks that fly between The House's residents over breakfast. As the rules of the outside world start to press in on this safe haven, readers will find themselves asking, \u003ci\u003ewhat would the world look like if everyone had a place to belong?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeni Zumas \u003c\/b\u003ewas a finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Her bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eRed Clocks\u003c\/i\u003e won the Oregon Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction. The novel was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice and was named a Best Book of 2018 by \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and the New York Public Library. \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e called it one of the \"100 Most Important Books of the 21st Century So Far.\" Zumas's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Guernica, The Cut, Tin House, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She lives in Oregon and teaches in the creative writing program at Portland State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9.24 x 6.33 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43156247543871,"sku":"9781643756578","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/q22cQ3Uo-m9781643756578.webp?v=1776970627","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/wolf-bells-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}