{"product_id":"mad-prairie-stories-and-a-novella-paperback","title":"Mad Prairie: Stories and a Novella - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate McIntyre\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny. A mother must choose between her children and her personal safety when her husband steadily excavates a moat around their country home, his very own little border wall. A Kansas politician grapples with international notoriety after an accident traps salt miners hundreds of feet underground--in the same salt mine where his brother was murdered. A bigot's newly transplanted liver gives him a taste for upbeat 1980s dance tracks while nudging him toward darker plans. And across several stories, we follow Miriam, a young overachiever hell-bent on leaving her home state who is lured back after college to teach elementary school in a rural community. In Culvert, Kansas, Miriam finds closed mouths and big secrets: the toxic waste storage for the battery factory leaches into the soil; the hog farm waste lagoons have sprung leaks; and her students, at turns psychic, lethargic, and aggressive, might not be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKATE McINTYRE's fiction and essays have appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eCincinnati Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eCimarron Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is a recipient of residencies at Hambidge, Playa, and the Spring Creek Project. She has a notable essay in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays 2014 \u003c\/i\u003eand Special Mentions in the 2016 and 2019 Pushcart Prize anthologies. An assistant professor of creative writing at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, she lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.\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 8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099893239943,"sku":"9780820360744","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/bd4d0d1bed92ae5e1b65a97f58d49c49.webp?v=1732378731","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/mad-prairie-stories-and-a-novella-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}