{"product_id":"slime-line-9781959000198","title":"Slime Line","description":"\u003cb\u003eA trippy and darkly funny portrait of the commercial fishing industry, \u003ci\u003eSlime Line\u003c\/i\u003e is the tragicomic yarn of one troubled college dropout's desperate attempts to remake himself into a hard-nosed working man.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the wake of his father's death, Garrett Deaver washes up at a salmon processing plant in his dad's old stomping grounds of Alaska. There, he renames himself Beaver--because just like a beaver, he's \"an industrious motherfucker\"-- and vows to become a supervisor at Klak Fancy Salmon, LLC. But moving up within the industry's seasonal underclass is anything but simple, and soon he finds himself with real, and imagined, enemies at the plant. As amphetamines scramble his sense of reality, and secrets about his father's life are revealed, the job he'd hoped would bring him salvation threatens to leave him broke, alone, and--maybe even literally--underwater.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJake Maynard is a writer from rural Pennsylvania whose stories and essays appear in \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Electric Lit, The New Republic, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. His experiences working in the commercial fishing industry inspired his debut novel, \u003ci\u003eSlime Line\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614616817938,"sku":"9781959000198","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e47729fa-465b-40b1-bd12-d13916fe214d.jpg?v=1732453265","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slime-line-9781959000198","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}