{"product_id":"ninety-nine-fire-hoops-a-memoir-9781647421892","title":"Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops: A Memoir","description":"Sixteen months after her wedding, a Taiwanese immigrant bride-inarticulate in English and disowned by her father--returns home to the Texas apartment she shares with her American husband, only to discover that in her two-hour absence he's taken all the money, moved out, and filed for divorce. Penniless, familyless, and voiceless, how will she survive in a foreign land?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerrill, Allison Hong:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Allison Hong Merrill was born and raised in Taiwan and arrived in the US at age twenty-two as a university student. That's when she realized her school English wasn't much help when asking for directions on the street or opening a bank account. She eventually learned English well enough to earn an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, however, and she now writes in both Chinese and English, both fiction and creative nonfiction, which means she spends a lot of time looking up words at Dictionary.com. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the Grand Prize winner of the 2019 MAST People of Earth writing contest. She is also the inaugural winner of Sandra Carpenter Prize for Creative Nonfiction, first-place winner of the 2019 \u003ci\u003eSegullah Journal\u003c\/i\u003e writing contest, first-place winner of 2020 \u003ci\u003eOpossum\u003c\/i\u003e flash prose contest, the runner-up in the 2020 Q2 Women on Writing Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest, and the third-place winner in the Storymakers Contest. Her work can be found in the \u003ci\u003eLife Story Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiahona Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e (both based in Taipei, Taiwan), \u003ci\u003eEnsign Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFlying South Literary Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDialogue Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMotherscope Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePast-Ten Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCosmonauts Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLDS Beta Reader Mind Game Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. Allison lives in Orem, Utah with her husband and their three sons.","brand":"She Writes Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650329645330,"sku":"9781647421892","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3d4f9b42-67c4-4a66-b41b-d8dc24ff0506.jpg?v=1733287212","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ninety-nine-fire-hoops-a-memoir-9781647421892","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}