{"product_id":"super-america-9780820333472","title":"Super America","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn settings as different as Honolulu, Hawaii, small-town Minnesota, and Taxco, Mexico, these nine stories and a novella show blue-collar characters struggling to achieve the American Dream--and sometimes alienating friends and family as they try to upgrade their working-class pedigree. Anne Panning's people, despite their mixed record of success, make us root for them on their sometimes heartbreaking journeys of entrepreneurship, love, and loss. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Tidal Wave Wedding\" a tsunami in Honolulu yields surprising results for a couple on their honeymoon. In \"All-U-Can-Eat,\" a woman tries to stave off the investment of her inheritance into a restaurant specializing in frog legs. In the novella, \"Freeze,\" a teenage son's future is forever complicated after a \"life altering\" accident confines his father to a wheelchair and accelerates the disintegration of his parents' marriage. An eerie clinical replay of another accident--this one on a bicycle in Hawaii--is at the center of \"What Happened,\" and in the title story a college theater major gets caught up in his father's exotic pets scheme. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePanning's stories show an acute awareness of place, and--whether it be a seventeenth-century former-monastery in Mexico, a suburban housing development in Minnesota, or a hard-luck laundromat on the Oregon coast--each setting often tells us something about the characters who occupy them. Sometimes sad and often funny, \u003ci\u003eSuper America\u003c\/i\u003e takes risks with our notions about the American Dream through characters caught between their working-class roots and grandiose visions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820333472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/10\/2009 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anne Panning","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38021852233909,"sku":"9780820333472","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f9023e09-2031-4a06-bd58-32b2990573cc.jpg?v=1609179857","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/super-america-9780820333472","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}