{"product_id":"9781889330938","title":"Bloody Mary: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter her debut with the widely praised stories in \u003ci\u003eBlood and Milk\u003c\/i\u003e, Sharon Solwitz offers us her first, darkly radiant, full-length novel. \u003ci\u003eBloody Mary\u003c\/i\u003e, which takes its title from the childhood game, tells the story of socially adept, 12-year-old Hadley and her protective mother. They live a privileged life in the Chicago neighborhood of Lakeview, but soon find themselves in a state of chaos and flux.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting with her signature, edgy prose and ironic humor, Solwitz demonstrates that happiness \"isn’t our birthright\" and that \"we have to work for it and even then we can’t be sure.\" We are led to consider our own degree of complicity in the hard times that seem to fall from nowhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A flair for dark comedy and the ability to turn on a dime are prized qualities for these unpredictable characters; time and again, their intrepid investigations lead them into uncharted territory where bizarre dramatic action seems to be the only possible move. Solwitz’s fine-toothed examinations of complex emotional states are dead on….\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon Solwitz\u003c\/b\u003e's first collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eBlood and Milk\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 1998 Carl Sandburg Prize from Friends of the Chicago Public Library, the prize for adult fiction from the Society of Midland Authors, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her short stories, published in such magazines as \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly, Mademoiselle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, have won numerous awards, including the Pushcart Prize, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, and grants and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council. Currently, along with her husband, poet Barry Silesky, she has worked as fiction editor of \u003ci\u003eAnother Chicago Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches fiction at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057917378800,"sku":"9781889330938","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781889330938_p0.jpg?v=1763607679","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781889330938","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}