{"product_id":"niagara-motel-9781551526607","title":"Niagara Motel","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in the early 1990s, Ashley Little's follow-up to her award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of a Girl Gang\u003c\/i\u003e introduces readers to eleven-year-old Tucker Malone--the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper--who believes his father is Sam Malone, the Boston barkeep who regularly appears on Tucker's TV screen. He and his mother move from motel to motel until, one night in Niagara Falls, his mother is hit by a car after falling asleep in the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTucker is sent to live in a youth group home where he meets Meredith, a pregnant sixteen-year-old with hopes of her own; he convinces her to join him on a road trip across the border to America in order to find his father, which takes them from Boston to the west coast. Along the way they encounter some of the most notorious criminals of the 1990s, and arrive in Los Angeles just as the Rodney King riots are unfolding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis cross-country search becomes an epic depiction of mid-90s America at a crossroads as seen through the eyes of a boy, for whom finding his father is the one thing that will make him whole. Told in spare, straightforward prose, \u003ci\u003eNiagara Motel\u003c\/i\u003e is a biting chronicle during the rise of mass-media in the decade that defined the MTV Generation, and the bittersweet story of a young boy who must learn hard lessons on his way to becoming a man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAshley Little \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of a Girl Gang\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arsenal Pulp Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781551526607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2016 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/18\/2016\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ashley Little","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41132390121653,"sku":"9781551526607","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b42f7fa7-4953-45cd-9d1e-ca0951d31ac6.jpg?v=1632832016","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/niagara-motel-9781551526607","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}