{"product_id":"owning-up-new-fiction-9780316570473","title":"Owning Up: New Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eFour blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity, from esteemed crime fiction writer George Pelecanos; \"Like his hero Elmore Leonard, Pelecanos finds the humanity in the lowest of lowlifes.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When the son of the Carusos is involved in a hold up, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production. Both have found their way on the straight and narrow path, that is, until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, an encounter that awakens her to a bloody history that undergirds the place she grew up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, \u003ci\u003eOwning Up\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can take.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mulholland Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316570473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240","brand":"George P. Pelecanos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43397613617333,"sku":"9780316570473","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_43296938-a2e5-47df-869f-783a16c81ead.jpg?v=1702390888","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/owning-up-new-fiction-9780316570473","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}