{"product_id":"9781631522123","title":"Oink: A Food For Thought Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePigs, poisoned cornbread, a feminist network, and a university tainted by corporate values.\u003cbr\u003e First in the Emily Addams Food for Thought Series.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of the 18 funniest books to come out this spring. MediaBookBub.Com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the five foodie novels to read this summer. Epicurious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of 18 breakthrough novels this season. MediaBookBub.Com \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Addams, foodie professor of women’s studies at Arbor State—a land grant university in Northern California—finds herself an unlikely suspect in the poisoning of a man she barely knows: Professor Peter Elliott of Plant Biology, the hotshot developer of a new genetically modified corn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did \u003ci\u003eher\u003c\/i\u003e cornbread end up in his hand as he lay in the smelly muck of a pig’s pen?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Emily and her colleagues try to identify who and what has poisoned Peter, they also struggle to keep a new and corporate-minded administration from defunding the women’s and ethnic studies programs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the process of solving the mystery, Emily and her network deepen their ties to each other—and uncover some of the dark secrets of a university whose traditionally communal values are being polluted by a wave of profit-fueled ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eOink\u003c\/i\u003e comes with recipes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e“It has been said that the comic campus novel is no more (things in higher education are verging on the tragic), but Oink proves otherwise.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber, authors of \u003ci\u003eThe Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"She Writes Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048451391728,"sku":"9781631522123","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631522123_p0.jpg?v=1763672386","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631522123","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}