{"product_id":"this-side-of-providence-9781938849763","title":"This Side of Providence","description":"Arcelia and her extended family tell universal truths about love, loss, struggle, and the tenuous nature of the American dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel M. Harper was born in Boston and raised in Providence, RI and rural Minnesota. A graduate of Brown University, she went on to earn her Master's degree from USC. Her poems and short fiction have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Carolina Review, Chicago Review, African American Review, Prairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, and the anthology \u003ci\u003eMending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarper's first novel, \u003ci\u003eBrass Ankle Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, was a Borders \u003ci\u003eOriginal Voices Award\u003c\/i\u003e finalist and selected as a Target \u003ci\u003eBreakout Book\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and won the 2002 Fellowship in Fiction from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Harper currently teaches fiction at Spalding University's brief-residency MFA in Writing Program.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Prospect Park Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50365706338578,"sku":"9781938849763","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0ff4e389-2281-465c-90b8-cc7f8f2ced5a.jpg?v=1728462631","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-side-of-providence-9781938849763","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}