{"product_id":"how-strange-a-season-fiction-9781476713106","title":"How Strange a Season: Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Dazzling.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Richly satisfying.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"These are stories you want to live in...a collection perfectly suited for our moment.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of stories \"so beautifully crafted they feel like tiny worlds unto themselves\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) about women experiencing all life's beauty and challenges, from award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with rare flowers to establish control over a small world and attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this \"closely observed\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker) \u003c\/i\u003ecollection, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. \"Bergman's stories are so emotionally rich that they serve as portals into distinct interior worlds...this collection is distinct and vivid...As singular as it is atmospheric\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMayhew Bergman, Megan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of \u003ci\u003eAlmost Famous Women \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBirds of a Lesser Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short fiction has appeared in two volumes of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and on NPR's\u003ci\u003e Selected Shorts. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has written columns on climate change and the natural world for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review. \u003c\/i\u003eHer work has been featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She teaches literature and environmental writing at Middlebury College, where she also serves as director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference. She lives on a small farm in Vermont.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646777725202,"sku":"9781476713106","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4bb89919-9a9d-4d98-9df5-52f5e39eca88.jpg?v=1733185629","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-strange-a-season-fiction-9781476713106","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}