{"product_id":"9780996439527","title":"Cadillac, Oklahoma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward Finalist: 2017 Best Book Awards, Fiction: Short Story\u003cbr\u003eSponsored by AmericanBookFest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen you step off the train in Cadillac, Oklahoma, you'll wade through currents of hilarity and romance where the sheriff is in love with the wife of a prominent lawyer, and the banker's widow and a Las Vegas sex worker team up to beautify Cadillac. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot until a young female reporter cracks open the self-satisfied surface of the town is the folly, anger, and pain revealed. The resentments of tree-huggers, storeowners, and the town fathers ignite over a proposal to create a New England-style town green in this water-starved former Dust Bowl town. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCitizens who don't care about town politics, deal with domestic abuse, religious rivalry and stale marriages. The sheriff, Jake Hale, seeks help from a retired lawyer, Sloane Willard, in an effort to save the life of a teenage girl accused of murdering the father who raped her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe town's guiding forces of rule following, religion, and guns unite as a praying mass of church-goers overwhelm Jake's attempt to manage an out-of-control hostage situation at Cadillac's Youth Detention Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore you get back on the train, you will have grown to love these people and their thirst for love, beauty, water and justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upper Hand Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021365559536,"sku":"9780996439527","price":12.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780996439527_p0.jpg?v=1763952962","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996439527","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}