{"product_id":"better-times-short-stories-9781496207876","title":"Better Times: Short Stories","description":"Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in \u003ci\u003eBetter Times\u003c\/i\u003e focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In \u003ci\u003eBetter Times\u003c\/i\u003e Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women's lives when the wider world is wrapped up in other matters: a father and daughter, separated by time and an ocean, dreaming of each other; a girl in a home for \"troubled women\" imagining the journey of the first dog in space; a phantom breast returning to haunt a woman after her mastectomy; a young woman giving birth to a litter of eggs. Such are the ordinary women weathering extraordinary circumstances in \u003ci\u003eBetter Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Divided into three sections covering the recent past, our current era, and the world to come, the stories gathered here--with characters stymied by loneliness, motherhood, illness, even cataclysmic climate change--interrogate the idea that so-called better times ever existed, particularly for women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496207876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/19\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sara Batkie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36654211399836,"sku":"9781496207876","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a3917589-022b-45b0-8b1f-d527e95d5be6.jpg?v=1603882912","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/better-times-short-stories-9781496207876","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}