{"product_id":"the-horizontal-world-growing-up-wild-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-9781582433639","title":"The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild In the Middle of Nowhere","description":"Debra Marquart grew up on a farm in rural North Dakota--on land her family had worked for generations. From the earliest age she knew she wanted out; surely life had more to offer than this unyielding daily grind, she thought. But she was never able to abandon it completely. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] rich memoir, set in North Dakota, about growing up on and escaping from a family farm for a future that held once unheard-of opportunities as a rock musician, poet, and English teacher.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDebra Marquart\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at Iowa State University. Her work has received numerous awards and commendations, including the John Guyon Nonfiction Award, the Mid-American Review Nonfiction Award, The Headwater's Prize, the Shelby Foote Prize for the Essay from the Faulkner Society, a Pushcart Prize, and a 2008 NEA Creative Writing Prose Fellowship among others. Marquart's memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Horizontal World: Growing up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e, received the \"Elle Lettres\" award from \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice recommendation, and the 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award. Marquart is also the author of two poetry collections--\u003ci\u003eEverything's a Verb\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrom Sweetness\u003c\/i\u003e--and a collection of interrelated short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Bone: Rock \u0026amp; Roll Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, which draws on her experiences as a female road musician.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527884804370,"sku":"9781582433639","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_392600a0-ef6b-447f-bd1b-ae0c670d0cc0.jpg?v=1731316470","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-horizontal-world-growing-up-wild-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-9781582433639","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}