{"product_id":"mad-prairie-stories-and-a-novella-9780820360744","title":"Mad Prairie: Stories and a Novella","description":"In this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny. A mother must choose between her children and her personal safety when her husband steadily excavates a moat around their country home, his very own little border wall. A Kansas politician grapples with international notoriety after an accident traps salt miners hundreds of feet underground--in the same salt mine where his brother was murdered. A bigot's newly transplanted liver gives him a taste for upbeat 1980s dance tracks while nudging him toward darker plans. And across several stories, we follow Miriam, a young overachiever hell-bent on leaving her home state who is lured back after college to teach elementary school in a rural community. In Culvert, Kansas, Miriam finds closed mouths and big secrets: the toxic waste storage for the battery factory leaches into the soil; the hog farm waste lagoons have sprung leaks; and her students, at turns psychic, lethargic, and aggressive, might not be human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKATE McINTYRE's fiction and essays have appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eCincinnati Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eCimarron Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is a recipient of residencies at Hambidge, Playa, and the Spring Creek Project. She has a notable essay in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays 2014 \u003c\/i\u003eand Special Mentions in the 2016 and 2019 Pushcart Prize anthologies. An assistant professor of creative writing at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, she lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650410615058,"sku":"9780820360744","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b8442f46-67e5-48fc-b13c-7b0eef426b06.jpg?v=1733288058","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mad-prairie-stories-and-a-novella-9780820360744","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}