{"product_id":"sightings-9780253008381","title":"Sightings","description":"\u003cp\u003eB. J. Hollars's debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the Midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns, among other outcasts incapable of finding a place in their worlds. In these marvelous stories, we can join a family on a very 21st-century trip along the Oregon Trail, watch as a boy builds a brother from a vacuum cleaner, follow a sandlot baseball team as it struggles to overcome an invasion by its Native American neighbors, and experience how a high school basketball squad takes to Sasquatch roaming its court. This genre-bending collection charts a bizarre pathway through the thickets of life on the road to adulthood. Pushing the limits of realism, these stories capture the peculiar rites of passage of growing up Midwestern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eB. J. Hollars is author of \u003ci\u003eThirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa.\u003c\/i\u003e He is editor of \u003ci\u003eYou Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story, Monsters: A Collection of Literary Sightings\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Blurring the Boundaries: Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e. He is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491641954578,"sku":"9780253008381","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fae73f04-f6f2-4535-8557-e2ba0093f484.jpg?v=1730545662","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sightings-9780253008381","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}