{"product_id":"wanted-good-family-9781933964904","title":"Wanted: Good Family","description":"A strong and engaging novel set in 1948 Appalachia in which race and class play a large part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph G. Anthony, a New Jersey-born Kentucky author, moved in 1980 from what he considered the center of the country--Manhattan�s Upper West Side--to Hazard, Kentucky. \"It was a place so isolated and obscure that I at first felt as lost as a missing person. But it was, I discovered, its own country.\" In fiction he began to explore its beauty, its many problems, its strengths and its weaknesses. �Fiction feels and understands: racism is in your face, poverty on your back. News stories can only report.� \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnthony, an English professor for 35 years, is a hybrid-Kentuckian now. His accent might still be North Eastern, but he sees with an insider-outsider�s eye. He regularly contributes essays and poems to local periodicals and anthologies, including a poem and story in Kentucky�s Twelve Days of Christmas. He�s a \"Kentucky Colonel\" (someone once sent his name in), but he�s more Kentucky peasant. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife of 36 years, Elise Mandel, also a hybrid Kentuckian. They have three grown children. His previous books include 2 novels, Peril, Kentucky, and Pickering�s Mountain, plus 2 short story collections, Camden Blues, and Bluegrass Funeral. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bottom Dog Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50707602473234,"sku":"9781933964904","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8bd6586a-1a12-4d0c-bcc0-be2d028a10ec.jpg?v=1734499955","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wanted-good-family-9781933964904","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}