{"product_id":"of-fathers-and-fire-9781496211866","title":"Of Fathers and Fire","description":"When Richie Thorpe and his ragtag religious band of ex-thieves arrive in the High Plains town of Suborney, Colorado, Tommy Sandor is captivated by the group. It's the summer of 1980 in the dusty, junkyard town, and the seventeen-year-old is wrestling with the forces shaping America and himself: the Iran hostage crisis, the incoming tide of Ronald Reagan's presidency, and the political rise of the Christian Right. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Tommy is increasingly drawn to the group, his mother, Connie, grows frantic. She has been hiding the truth from her son, telling him that his father was a saxophonist from New York who never knew he had a child, and is lying low in Suborney to hide from Tommy's actual father--Richie Thorpe. Connie knows Richie has come for his son, and though she has witnessed Thorpe's mysterious powers, the desperation to protect her lie, her son, and their life begets a venom with an elemental power that threatens the whole town. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Wingate\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the award-winning short story collection \u003ci\u003eWifeshopping\u003c\/i\u003e and the prose poem collection \u003ci\u003eThirty-One Octets: Incantations and Meditations\u003c\/i\u003e. His interactive digital memoir \u003ci\u003edaddylabyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the Art\/Science Museum of Singapore. He is an associate professor of English at South Dakota State University. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50339078832402,"sku":"9781496211866","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c974f32c-46b0-4503-a9fd-da316ae065ae.jpg?v=1727995239","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/of-fathers-and-fire-9781496211866","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}