{"product_id":"red-light-run-9781501147364","title":"Red Light Run","description":"A brilliant feat of storytelling, Red Light Run is the radiant and stunning debut from Best New American Voices writer Baird Harper.When two cars collide at an intersection in a leafy Chicago suburb, Hartley Nolan is not the person police expect to find behind the wheel. After all, he barely drinks; everyone knows it's his wife who's the alcoholic. But the bigger question on people's minds is what brought Sonia Senn, dead at the scene, back to her hometown in such a hurry that night? In eleven tightly linked stories, Red Light Run pulls us into the inner lives of Hartley, Sonia, and a host of other characters to untangle the mounting forces that carry them to their fates. Among the ensemble in this prismatic collection are a real estate agent who seeks gossip on the market rather than houses, a trailer park developer whose entire livelihood is laid to waste by a single cigarette, a divorced mother battling her daughter-in-law for hegemony over her kitchen, a widower hell-bent on destroying the invasive species of beetle that's wiping out his oak trees, and a down-and-out handyman with a desperate plan for revenge. And then there's Sonia Senn, with a dark secret of her own, and Hartley Nolan, who has risen above his roots to become a commodities trader in Chicago only to end up sentenced to eight years at Grassland State Prison. With infectiously grim humor and wry insight, these characters contemplate their realities in relation to one tragic moment, propelling us toward a startling revelation about the long and sometimes crooked arc of justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarper, Baird:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Baird Harper's fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStoryQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications, and has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eNew Stories from the Midwest, 2015\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003e40 Years of CutBank\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStories\u003c\/i\u003e; and twice in \u003ci\u003eBest New American Voices. \u003c\/i\u003eThe recipient of the 2014 Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction, the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e's Nelson Algren Award, and the James Jones Short Story Award, Harper lives in Oak Park with his wife and two kids, and he teaches creative writing at Loyola University and the University of Chicago. \u003ci\u003eRed Light Run\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50372286972178,"sku":"9781501147364","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e59822bc-d48e-4a4b-a871-522219a2e33f.jpg?v=1728545177","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/red-light-run-9781501147364","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}