{"product_id":"awkward-a-detour-9781934137017","title":"Awkward: A Detour","description":"Startlingly imaginative nonfiction about a very particular if common and much-maligned state of being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Cappello\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books of literary nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eAwkward: A Detour\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eCalled Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, \u003c\/i\u003e which won a \u003ci\u003eForeWord Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publishers Prize, and \u003ci\u003eSwallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them.\u003c\/i\u003e Her work has been featured in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Salon, Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, in guest author blogs for Powell's Books, and on five separate occasions as Notable Essay of the Year in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, The Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from Teachers and Writers Collaborative, and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island and Lucerne-in-Maine, Maine.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298609496338,"sku":"9781934137017","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_565e255c-354c-43a6-9269-68dacd590549.jpg?v=1747829675","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/awkward-a-detour-9781934137017","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}