{"product_id":"in-the-between","title":"In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e17 stories and 2 comics by established and rising stars in American fiction and graphic narrative\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding contributions by Roxane Gay, Alice Hoffman, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Shivana Sookdeo, and Bryan Washington. \u003ci\u003eIn the Between\u003c\/i\u003e presents characters of differing and mixed cultural backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ableness, some affected by urban gentrification or the decline of their rural town—all striving to forge a future in today’s divided America. Masterful and boldly intimate, these stories urge us to embrace a complex understanding of who we are as a nation and who we can be as individuals.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOther contributors are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maria Anderson, Ryka Aoki, Joy Baglio, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Nancy Fulda, Vanessa Hua, Bryan Hurt, Phil Klay, Mister Loki, Casey Robb, Rion Amilcar Scott, Akhil Sharma, and Robert Anthony Siegel.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eTo meet her immigrant parents’ expectations, a daughter fakes her way into a top university and finds the only way out is through revenge.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eA strait-laced Black man, an accountant who is repeatedly mistaken for a drug dealer, decides to track down and get to know his double.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eA trans woman considers her new femininity in relation to her activist lesbian friend and her grandmother, who fled from her homeland in war-torn Vietnam.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eAn American soldier in Fallujah suffers from PTSD after he covers for his buddy who shoots an Iraqi boy.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eA girl anguishes over choosing to have an abortion amidst questions of environmental destruction.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eAfter a father disappears into the forest, will his grown son live in their dilapidated trailer and wash dishes in a restaurant forever or will he leave their shrinking logging town?\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46239018189010,"sku":"9780892555468","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46239018221778,"sku":"d7d5fd6a-2754-399e-82a0-098a1da1a5be","price":18.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_8ca05146-dedf-4a4c-90c3-944987607d1e.jpg?v=1763136221","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/in-the-between","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}