{"product_id":"elsewhere-california-9781582437842","title":"Elsewhere, California","description":"We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's award-winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7-Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a past she cannot escape, personified in the guise of her violent cousin Keith. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Keith moves in with her family, he triggers a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life: to her studies at USC, to her burgeoning career as a painter and artist, and into her relationship with a wealthy Italian who sequesters her in his glass-walled house in the Hollywood Hills. The past will intrude upon Avery's first gallery show, proving her mother's adage: Every goodbye aint gone. The dual-narrative of Elsewhere, California illustrates the complicated history of African Americans across the rolling basin of Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBreak Any Woman Down\u003c\/i\u003e, Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel \u003ci\u003eElsewhere, California\u003c\/i\u003e. Both books were nominees for the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award. Born and raised in and around Los Angeles, she is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. Learn more at danajohnsonauthor.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544767140114,"sku":"9781582437842","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1cf995e9-8544-4ac6-85aa-d028a879046d.jpg?v=1731535581","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/elsewhere-california-9781582437842","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}