{"product_id":"youre-in-the-wrong-place-9780814348086","title":"You're in the Wrong Place","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a thrilling interconnected narrative, \u003ci\u003eYou're in the Wrong Place\u003c\/i\u003e presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they cannot escape. Charles Baxter stated that \"Joseph Harris has a particular feeling for the Detroit suburbs and the slightly stunted lives of the young people there. . . . \u003ci\u003eYou're in the Wrong Place\u003c\/i\u003e isn't uniformly downbeat-there are all sorts of rays of hope that gleam toward the end.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book, composed of twelve stories, begins in the fall of 2008 with the shuttering of Dynamic Fabricating-a fictional industrial shop located in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale. Over the next seven years, the shop's former employees-as well as their friends and families-struggle to find money, purpose, and levity in a landscape suddenly devoid of work, faith, and love. In \"Would You Rather,\" a young couple brought together by Dynamic Fabricating shares a blissful weekend in Northern Michigan, unaware of the catastrophe that awaits them upon their return home. In \"Acolytes,\" a devout Catholic clings to her faith as her brothers descend into cultish soccer violence. In \"Memorial,\" an ex-Dynamic worker scrapes money together for a tribute to his best friend, lost to the war in Afghanistan. In \"Was It Good for You?\" a cam girl deconstructs materialism with her aging great aunt, a luxury sales associate, and an anxious, faceless client. And in the title story, simmering tensions come to a boil on a hot summer day for a hardscrabble landscaping crew, hired by the local bank to maintain the lawns of foreclosures.\u003cbr\u003eIn turns elegiac and harrowing, \u003ci\u003eYou're in the Wrong Place \u003c\/i\u003eblends lyric intensity with philosophical eroticism to create a singular, powerful vision of contemporary American life. Readers of contemporary fiction grounded in place need to take up this collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814348086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Joseph Harris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644561551516,"sku":"9780814348086","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e458ae9d-0bc8-4b3d-987c-062ae3660e80.jpg?v=1603858911","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/youre-in-the-wrong-place-9780814348086","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}