{"product_id":"the-stone-sister-9781625570246","title":"The Stone Sister","description":"Spanning the mid to late 20th century and set in the Elkhorn Valley of southwestern Montana, \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Sister\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a child's birth, disappearance, and discovery in a home for \" backward children.\" Told through the voices of a father, nurse, and sister, the novel is hailed by award-winning writer Ann Patchett as \"beautifully written and compassionately told...a novel that will stay with me for a long, long time.\" The story explores the power of family secrets and society's evolving definitions of \" normal\" - as it pertains to family, medicine, and social structure and sheds light on the beginnings of the disability justice movement a family reckons with a painful past. Incredibly, the novel is based on Caroline Patterson's personal story. As an adult, she discovered she had an older sister with Down syndrome who was written out of her family history. Her name was also Caroline Patterson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatterson, Caroline:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Caroline Patterson is the author of Ballet at the Moose Lodge and two children's books on the natural world. She edited the literary anthology Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart. Her short fiction and essays have been published in journals including Epoch, Outside, Southwest Review, and Seventeen, and have been included in anthologies including A Million Acres, Montana Noir, Bright Bones, and The New Montana Story. A graduate of the University of Montana creative writing program in fiction, she was awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Fiction at Stanford University, the Joseph Henry Jackson Prize from the San Francisco Foundation, a Vogelstein Foundation Award, and the Montana Arts Council Fellowship. She's received residencies at Ucross, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Ragdale. She is currently the executive director of the Missoula Writing Collaborative, which places writers to teach creative writing in more than 34 elementary schools in rural, urban, and reservation schools across western Montana.She lives with her husband, writer Fred Haefele, in the Missoula home her great-grandfather built in 1906, which he built on the banks of the Clark Fork River where, he told his five-year-old son back in Chicago, they could throw stones in the water and the family could come and cut out all worrying. Her two grown children visit on Sundays for dinner and laundry.","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561560936722,"sku":"9781625570246","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c176558d-20de-4d74-85f1-12d497860227.jpg?v=1731848077","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-stone-sister-9781625570246","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}