{"product_id":"lioness-9781952271441","title":"Lioness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Darkly compelling.\" --Tom Perrotta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fall of 2018, a bomb goes off at a water-bottling plant in the mountains of southwest Virginia, an incident the FBI declares an act of ecoterrorism. Arrested at the scene is Chris Bright, a mountain hermit with a long history of activism. Unaccounted for--and presumed dead--is Mara Wood, an installation artist who in the last two years has lost her son and left her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Mara's estranged husband David cannot quite believe she is dead, and as he goes about reconstructing the story of what happened, he begins to imagine an alternate narrative--one in which their son doesn't die and his wife doesn't leave him, one in which his wife doesn't carry on a secret relationship with Chris Bright, a man bent on fighting back against the environmental despoliation of his Appalachian home. \u003ci\u003eLioness\u003c\/i\u003e is a page-turning, heart-wrenching examination of extremism: What pushes people to act violently, and is that violence ever justified?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e West Virginia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952271441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mark Powell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41993020473525,"sku":"9781952271441","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5bfd8f20-3c6a-4830-b083-40d6d15b8d07.jpg?v=1648522694","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lioness-9781952271441","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}