{"product_id":"9780692494585","title":"Natives in Exile","description":"Dirk Harman's critically acclaimed first novel chronicles the parallel lives of several unfortunate souls stranded by history, circumstances and plain old bad living in a slowly dying Mojave desert town. Once a thriving mining community and bustling railroad junction, Solero, California has fallen on hard times, due mainly to a careless error made by a hung-over civil engineer while mapping out a route for the new interstate. Through a series of linked stories told in a lyrical and often humorous voice, Harman portrays a piece of American culture that has been abandoned and left to the elements, like postcards from a ghost town.\u003cp\u003e\"Solero is the faded name on the bullet-pocked road sign that flips past your windshield at 80 MPH (and 100 degrees in the shade) on the way to Las Vegas. Of this welcome-to-nowhere town-easily bypassed and quickly forgotten-Dirk Harman has drawn a portrait so vivid, so harsh, so funny, so merciful, that it's on my literary map for good\" \u003cbr\u003e-Ursula Le Guin, Capra Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Getting inside a dozen wildly different characters, from native rattlesnake shaman to itinerant rodeo clown to unrequited coffee shop waitress, Harman himself is shape-shifter and shaman.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Peter Wild, The Sonora Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Harman's prose has the forlorn authenticity of a distant train whistle in the night.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iCrew Digital Productions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090917003504,"sku":"9780692494585","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692494585","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}