{"product_id":"9781429945271","title":"Little Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of such classics as \u003ci\u003eMy Ántonia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThere Will Be Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Keesey's \u003ci\u003eLittle Century \u003c\/i\u003eis a resonant and moving debut novel by a writer of confident gifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrphaned after the death of her mother, eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers heads west in search of her only living relative. In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, she's met by her distant cousin, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. Pick leads her to a tiny cabin by a small lake called Half-a-Mind, and there she begins her new life as a homesteader. If she can hold out for five years, the land will join Pick's already impressive spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Esther discovers that this town on the edge of civilization is in the midst of a range war. There's plenty of land, but somehow it is not enough for the ranchers—it's cattle against sheep, with water at a premium. In this charged climate, small incidents of violence swiftly escalate, and Esther finds her sympathies divided between her cousin and a sheepherder named Ben Cruff, a sworn enemy of the cattle ranchers. As her feelings for Ben and for her land grow, she begins to see she can't be loyal to both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Century \u003c\/i\u003emaps our country's cutthroat legacy of dispossession and greed, even as it celebrates the ecstatic visions of what America could become.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154113183984,"sku":"9781429945271","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429945271_p0.jpg?v=1769902591","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429945271","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}