{"product_id":"in-zanesville-9780316125277","title":"In Zanesville","description":"\u003ch2\u003eIn Zanesville: A Mesmerizing Coming-of-Age Novel\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boys of My Youth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFestival Days\u003c\/i\u003e, a \"mesmerizing... beautifully written\" debut novel that evokes the wrenching, exquisite moment just before we step into adulthood (Ann Patchett).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fourteen-year-old narrator of \u003ci\u003eIn Zanesville\u003c\/i\u003e is a late bloomer. She flies under the radar -- a sidekick, a marching-band dropout, a disastrous babysitter. Luckily, she has a best friend with whom she shares the everyday adventures of a 1970s American girlhood, incidents through which a world is revealed and character is forged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn time, the two girls' friendship is tested -- by their families' claims on them, by a clique of popular girls who stumble upon them, and by their first startling, subversive intimations of womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAward-Winning Author Jo Ann Beard\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith dry wit and piercing observation, Jo Ann Beard shows us that in the seemingly quiet streets of America's innumerable Zanesvilles is a universe of wonders, and that within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Probably my favorite novel of the year...A marvelous reading experience...I don't think I'll ever forget the unnamed, perfectly realized narrator of \u003ci\u003eIn Zanesville\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --Nancy Pearl, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJo Ann Beard\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the essay collections \u003ci\u003eThe Boys of My Youth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFestival Days\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, and other magazines and anthologies. She has received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680554094866,"sku":"9780316125277","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25091907-468c-4a9c-b985-18be8cce8e79.jpg?v=1734922547","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-zanesville-9780316125277","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}