{"product_id":"9781935248446","title":"Being Dead in South Carolina","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Jacob White can write.\"—Padgett Powell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wide array of layered stories written with disarming care.\"—Ron Carlson, author of \u003ci\u003eFive Skies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jacob White's characters are in trouble, and their creator brings them to life with language both lush and harsh, gritty and great.\"—Antonya Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eBound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fresh, fierce, sad, funny, deep. The author is a natural story teller, with a voice that is like music. . . . This book sings. It's real, it's beautiful.\"—Lev Raphael, author of \u003ci\u003eThe German Money\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet largely in the modern South, the stories in \u003ci\u003eBeing Dead in South Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e concern people who no longer recognize themselves, who have arrived, like the Sunbelt itself, to a strange day that seems disconnected from all the old days, the old stories, the old selves. Yet it's always on this day we must answer for ourselves—right an overturned car, recover the body of a brother, convince a son of our worth and his. We are adrift with bad judgment, a little loose in the head, but searching for the correction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA South Carolina native, \u003cb\u003eJacob White\u003c\/b\u003e studied creative writing at the University of Houston, where he received the Donald Barthelme Memorial Fellowship in Fiction. His fiction has appeared in many journals, including the \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalt Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSewanee Review\u003c\/i\u003e, from which he received the Andrew Lytle Prize. He teaches creative writing at Johnson State College and co-edits \u003ci\u003eGreen Mountains Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leapfrog Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050326114544,"sku":"9781935248446","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935248446_p0.jpg?v=1769897221","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935248446","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}