{"product_id":"site-fidelity-stories-9780393531824","title":"Site Fidelity: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirmly rooted in the modern American West, \u003cem\u003eSite Fidelity\u003c\/em\u003e follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequity and climate catastrophe. A seventy-four-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. A woman delivers her own baby in a Nevada ghost town. A young farmer hides her chicken flock from the government during a bird flu epidemic. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying to protect a breeding group of endangered Gunnison sage grouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn lean, lyrical prose, Claire Boyles evokes the bleakness and beauty of our threatened western landscapes. Spanning the decades from the 1970s to a plausible near future, this knockout debut introduces unforgettable characters who must confront the challenges of caregiving and loss alongside the very practical impacts of fracking, water rights law, and other agricultural policies. \u003cem\u003eSite Fidelity\u003c\/em\u003e is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoyles, Claire:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eClaire Boyles\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, teacher, and former sustainable farmer. She received her MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University. Her fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBoulevard\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Loveland, Colorado.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50529110196498,"sku":"9780393531824","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a4a8ca44-b11a-489d-ab46-3445bd3e4aac.jpg?v=1731340106","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/site-fidelity-stories-9780393531824","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}