{"product_id":"away-to-stay-9781646030729","title":"Away to Stay","description":"Weary of rundown motels and long nights sleeping in her mother's truck, Olya wants nothing more than to find a home. It seems she might finally find one with Jack, her mother's cousin who lives in a tumbledown ranch in Southern California's Inland Empire. But safety is not all that it seems, and, even here, with a roof over her head and four walls to surround her, Olya is confronted with... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAway to Stay\u003c\/i\u003e burns with the urgency of its young narrator, living at the hard edge of homelessness. Through Olya's off-beat and probing consciousness, we witness a world of desperate people flailing inside a broken system. Olya's mother Irina is a Russian émigré and self-serving liar, obsessed with becoming a prima ballerina and stalking Mikhail Baryshnikov. Cousin Jack is haunted by demons from the Afghanistan war--and the oft-absent Irina. Jack turns his obsession onto his untrainable dog named Bird that he kidnapped from the Riverside Police Department. To Olya, Bird is Job on four legs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAway to Stay\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the precarity of shelter and home in the life of an immigrant and American working family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Regal House Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646030729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222","brand":"Past Forward","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574037356725,"sku":"9781646030729","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_78b0cc20-967b-4212-b652-13279a8781a5.jpg?v=1643688551","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/away-to-stay-9781646030729","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}