{"product_id":"youre-in-the-wrong-place-paperback","title":"You're in the Wrong Place - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Harris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a thrilling interconnected narrative, \u003ci\u003eYou're in the Wrong Place\u003c\/i\u003e presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they cannot escape. Charles Baxter stated that Joseph Harris has a particular feeling for the Detroit suburbs and the slightly stunted lives of the young people there. . . . \u003ci\u003eYou're in the Wrong Place\u003c\/i\u003e isn't uniformly downbeat-there are all sorts of rays of hope that gleam toward the end. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book, composed of twelve stories, begins in the fall of 2008 with the shuttering of Dynamic Fabricating-a fictional industrial shop located in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale. Over the next seven years, the shop's former employees-as well as their friends and families-struggle to find money, purpose, and levity in a landscape suddenly devoid of work, faith, and love. In Would You Rather, a young couple brought together by Dynamic Fabricating shares a blissful weekend in Northern Michigan, unaware of the catastrophe that awaits them upon their return home. In Acolytes, a devout Catholic clings to her faith as her brothers descend into cultish soccer violence. In Memorial, an ex-Dynamic worker scrapes money together for a tribute to his best friend, lost to the war in Afghanistan. In Was It Good for You? a cam girl deconstructs materialism with her aging great aunt, a luxury sales associate, and an anxious, faceless client. And in the title story, simmering tensions come to a boil on a hot summer day for a hardscrabble landscaping crew, hired by the local bank to maintain the lawns of foreclosures.\u003cbr\u003eIn turns elegiac and harrowing, \u003ci\u003eYou're in the Wrong Place \u003c\/i\u003eblends lyric intensity with philosophical eroticism to create a singular, powerful vision of contemporary American life. Readers of contemporary fiction grounded in place need to take up this collection.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories by Joseph Harris have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMidwest Review, Moon City Review, Great Lakes Review, The MacGuffin, Third Wednesday, Storm Cellar\u003c\/i\u003e, and have received the Gesell, Tompkins, and Detroit Working Writers' Awards for fiction. He holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota, an MA from Wayne State University, and a BFA from Emerson College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729358426175,"sku":"9780814348086","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/673e552f549964b9e92e6d986cab9295.webp?v=1765121904","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/youre-in-the-wrong-place-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}