{"product_id":"salvage-this-world-9780316413633","title":"Salvage This World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Michael Farris Smith's latest \"riveting\" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may be the region's savior. (Laird Hunt, National Book Award-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eZorrie \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNeverhome\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the pulpit, in the shadows she sows the seeds of violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elsewhere, Jessie and her toddler, Jace, are on the run across the Mississippi\/Louisiana line, in a resentful return to her childhood home and her desolate father. Holt, Jace's father, is missing and hunted by a brutish crowd, and an old man witnesses the wrong thing in the depths of night. In only a matter of days, all of their lives will collide, and be altered, in the maelstrom of the changing world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At once elegiac and profound, \u003ci\u003eSalvage This World\u003c\/i\u003e journeys into the heart of a region growing darker and less forgiving, and asks how we keep going--what do we hold onto--in a land where God has fled. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGarden \u0026amp; Gun Top Reads of 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eBibliolifestyle Best Literary Fiction of 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e Southern Living Southern Writers to Read Right Now\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Farris Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with \u003ci\u003eEsquire, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003e Southern Living, Garden \u0026amp; Gun, Book Riot, \u003c\/i\u003e and numerous other outlets, and have been named Indie Next, Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has also written the feature-film adaptations of his novels \u003ci\u003eDesperation Road \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Fighter, \u003c\/i\u003etitled for the screen as \u003ci\u003eRumble\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThrough the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and daughters.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631457603858,"sku":"9780316413633","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6c190553-c580-454f-999d-9eceaa639c08.jpg?v=1732773254","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/salvage-this-world-9780316413633","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}