{"product_id":"9780820335711","title":"Super America","description":"In settings as different as Honolulu, Hawaii, small-town Minnesota, and Taxco, Mexico, these nine stories and a novella show blue-collar characters struggling to achieve the American Dream--and sometimes alienating friends and family as they try to upgrade their working-class pedigree. Anne Panning's people, despite their mixed record of success, make us root for them on their sometimes heartbreaking journeys of entrepreneurship, love, and loss.\u003cp\u003eIn \"Tidal Wave Wedding\" a tsunami in Honolulu yields surprising results for a couple on their honeymoon. In \"All-U-Can-Eat,\" a woman tries to stave off the investment of her inheritance into a restaurant specializing in frog legs. In the novella, \"Freeze,\" a teenage son's future is forever complicated after a \"life altering\" accident confines his father to a wheelchair and accelerates the disintegration of his parents' marriage. An eerie clinical replay of another accident--this one on a bicycle in Hawaii--is at the center of \"What Happened,\" and in the title story a college theater major gets caught up in his father's exotic pets scheme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePanning's stories show an acute awareness of place, and--whether it be a seventeenth-century former-monastery in Mexico, a suburban housing development in Minnesota, or a hard-luck laundromat on the Oregon coast--each setting often tells us something about the characters who occupy them. Sometimes sad and often funny, \u003ci\u003eSuper America\u003c\/i\u003e takes risks with our notions about the American Dream through characters caught between their working-class roots and grandiose visions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128627675376,"sku":"9780820335711","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780820335711_p0.jpg?v=1763744152","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780820335711","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}