{"product_id":"9781772140125","title":"Seep","description":"\u003cbr\u003eFiction. Most Anticipated 2015 Fiction Pick, \u003cem\u003e49th Shelf\u003c\/em\u003e. Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond, during a dugout- clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a team of barnstorming Cuban All Stars. Decades later, when he sees his childhood home being moved on a truck down the highway, he begins a quest to research the history of his hometown and of his family. SEEP is being dismantled, and the land is being redeveloped as a master-planned recreational townsite to complement a nearby First Nations casino. And then his brother Darryl arrives on his doorstep with the force of a bus crash. In the face of the town's erasure, he tries to preserve its stories; so doing, he comes to question his own. SEEP limns the tension between land development and landscape, trauma and nostalgia, dysfunction and intimacy in a narrative of twenty-first century Canada.\u003cp\u003e\"Mark Giles assuredly steps in the footsteps of his predecessors who so engagingly limned the Alberta prairie: W.O. Mitchell, Henry Kreisel, W.P. Kinsella, and Robert Kroetsch. Giles' SEEP is a wickedly wonderful account of how our senses of self and of place can be interrelated, with the swirl of emotions involved in each part of the equation making for a complicated world and illuminating fiction.\"—Tom Wayman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Mark's previous title, \u003cem\u003eKnucklehead \u0026amp; Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Elegant riddles dressed in workaday clothes, puzzles of image and event whose solutions cut to the heart of being human in a world of perils... There's not a word or image that fails to contribute to Giles purpose.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Globe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Giles' style is polished and assured throughout... \u003cem\u003eKnucklehead\u003c\/em\u003e is a solid debut.\"—\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anvil Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49789454844144,"sku":"9781772140125","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781772140125","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}