{"product_id":"youre-in-the-wrong-place-9780814348086","title":"You're in the Wrong Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA lyrical deconstruction of postindustrial American life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a thrilling interconnected narrative, \u003ci\u003eYou're in the Wrong Place\u003c\/i\u003e presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they cannot escape. Charles Baxter stated that \"Joseph Harris has a particular feeling for the Detroit suburbs and the slightly stunted lives of the young people there. . . . \u003ci\u003eYou're in the Wrong Place\u003c\/i\u003e isn't uniformly downbeat--there are all sorts of rays of hope that gleam toward the end.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book, composed of twelve stories, begins in the fall of 2008 with the shuttering of Dynamic Fabricating--a fictional industrial shop located in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale. Over the next seven years, the shop's former employees--as well as their friends and families--struggle to find money, purpose, and levity in a landscape suddenly devoid of work, faith, and love. In \"Would You Rather,\" a young couple brought together by Dynamic Fabricating shares a blissful weekend in Northern Michigan, unaware of the catastrophe that awaits them upon their return home. In \"Acolytes,\" a devout Catholic clings to her faith as her brothers descend into cultish soccer violence. In \"Memorial,\" an ex-Dynamic worker scrapes money together for a tribute to his best friend, lost to the war in Afghanistan. In \"Was It Good for You?\" a cam girl deconstructs materialism with her aging great aunt, a luxury sales associate, and an anxious, faceless client. And in the title story, simmering tensions come to a boil on a hot summer day for a hardscrabble landscaping crew, hired by the local bank to maintain the lawns of foreclosures.\u003cbr\u003eIn turns elegiac and harrowing, \u003ci\u003eYou're in the Wrong Place \u003c\/i\u003eblends lyric intensity with philosophical eroticism to create a singular, powerful vision of contemporary American life. Readers of contemporary fiction grounded in place need to take up this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories by Joseph Harris have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMidwest Review, Moon City Review, Great Lakes Review, The MacGuffin, Third Wednesday, Storm Cellar\u003c\/i\u003e, and have received the Gesell, Tompkins, and Detroit Working Writers' Awards for fiction. He holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota, an MA from Wayne State University, and a BFA from Emerson College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50372262396178,"sku":"9780814348086","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c2d59e2-905b-4f3c-8be0-31e7410d07ff.jpg?v=1728544858","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/youre-in-the-wrong-place-9780814348086","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}