{"product_id":"matter-out-of-place-stories-9781647792299","title":"Matter Out of Place: Stories","description":"A grieving mother ghost-hunts in Virginia City. A college student's field trip to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel spurs a sexual awakening. A boy starts a wildfire on Peavine while trying to impress his crush. A schoolteacher is dismissed, and the aftermath unfolds in a schoolwide email chain. A woman tries on new identities at Burning Man. All must contend with their complicated histories and answer the question: is being \u003ci\u003efrom \u003c\/i\u003ea place the same as being \u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eit? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Experimental in its approach and unflinching in its execution, \u003ci\u003eMatter Out of Place\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of bright spots of humanity in dark underbellies, a feminist reckoning with \"sin,\" and a love letter to the strange mirage that is northern Nevada. It inhabits physical and digital spaces with equal wariness, and its characters--filled with grit--navigate the fraught divide between appearances and reality, approval and judgment, gambling everything despite knowing that the house always wins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnElise Hatjakes\u003c\/b\u003e holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Missouri and an MFA in fiction from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she works as a teaching assistant professor. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eJuked\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBull\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTahoma Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTypehouse\u003c\/i\u003e, among other journals, and have been shortlisted for the Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction and the Curt Johnson Prose Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nevada Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033968767250,"sku":"9781647792299","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_456a5e5d-78ab-46e6-9753-1564cbe6a7a9.jpg?v=1770982573","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/matter-out-of-place-stories-9781647792299","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}