{"product_id":"the-meat-and-spirit-plan-9781566892018","title":"The Meat and Spirit Plan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Like an experimentally inclined Annie Proulx, Saterstrom tersely renders the effects of social violence on individual lives . . . the effect is shattering and transcendent.\"--Modern Times Bookstore newsletter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn lyric, diamond-cut prose, Selah Saterstrom revisits the mythic, dead-end Southern town of Beau Repose. This time, the story follows a strung-out American teenager influenced by heavy metal, inspired by Ginger Rogers, hell-bent on self-destruction, and more intelligent than anyone around her realizes. She is forced into rehab and private school, and her life, at least on the surface, changes course, eventually leading to theology studies in Scotland. But as the feverish St. Vitus's dance of her adolescence morphs into slow-motion inertia abroad, an illness brings her home again--to face the legacy of pain she left behind and to find a way to become the lead in a dance of her own creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn heir to William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, Saterstrom soars above the traditional boundaries of the American novel with \"exquisite, cut-to-the-quick language\" (Raleigh \u003ci\u003eNews \u0026amp; Observer\u003c\/i\u003e) that makes her novels \"impossible to put down.\" Spare, raw, and transcendent, Saterstrom's unflinching examination of modern-day Dixie and contemporary adolescence lights up the dark corners of the American experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eSelah Saterstrom\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pink Institution, \u003c\/i\u003e a debut novel praised across the country for \"letting gusts of fresh, tart air blow into the old halls of Southern Gothic\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e). A Mississippi native, she is currently on the faculty of the University of Denver's Creative Writing Program. Visit her website at www.selahsaterstrom.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566892018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.42h x 5.30w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2007 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2007 pg. 751\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2007 pg. 53\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Selah Saterstrom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659990888604,"sku":"9781566892018","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c255d2d3-ee48-428f-b894-6322b990e1c7.jpg?v=1603895885","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-meat-and-spirit-plan-9781566892018","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}