{"product_id":"9780299297435","title":"Little Reef and Other Stories","description":"\u003ci\u003eLittle Reef and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e announces the arrival of an original voice in literature. From Key West to Maine, Michael Carroll’s debut collection of stories depicts the lives of characters who are no longer provincial but are not yet cosmopolitan. These women and their gay male friends are “B-listers” of a new, ironic, media-soaked culture. They live in a rich but increasingly divided America, a weirdly paradoxical country increasingly accepting of gay marriage but still marked by prejudice, religious strictures, and swaths of poverty and hopelessness. Carroll shows us people stunned by the shock of the now, who have forgotten their pasts and can’t envision a future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner, Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Finalist, Gay Fiction, Lambda Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Publishing Triangle","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120565797104,"sku":"9780299297435","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780299297435_p0.jpg?v=1763683503","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780299297435","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}