{"product_id":"the-paragraph-ranch-paperback","title":"The Paragraph Ranch - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Brannon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKay Ellington\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery writer knows you can't go home again. But that's just what is required of West Texas expatriate Dee Bennett-Kaufmann when her mother is badly injured in a mysterious car accident.Single-again \"Dr. Dee\" has never been on the \"A-team\" in her trendy East Coast MFA program. When a prestigious summer fellowship gives her the chance to finally finish her book, salvage her career, and spend some quality time with her college-age daughter, Dee's certain her luck is about to change. Returning to care for her irascible, widowed mother threatens all of that.With so much at stake, Dee engineers a series of unorthodox strategies and creative tradeoffs to keep her options in play-and despite herself finds friendship, love, and the power of words in the unlikeliest of places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKay Ellington, a native West Texan, has worked in newspapers from New York to California to the Carolinas-and back again to her home state. Barbara Brannon formerly led the Publishing Laboratory at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, but got to Texas as soon as she could.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42091369070727,"sku":"9781935619192","price":22.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/10b8bb13fa58ed9105bf2095ebf58334.webp?v=1732291377","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-paragraph-ranch-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}