{"product_id":"away-to-stay-paperback","title":"Away to Stay - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Kuryla\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeatured in The Millions \"Most Anticipated\" 2022 Book Preview\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeary of rundown motels and long nights sleeping in her mother's car, Olya wants nothing more than a home. It seems she might finally find one with Jack, her mother's cousin who lives in a tumbledown ranch in Southern California's Inland Empire. But safety is not all that it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAway to Stay\u003c\/em\u003e burns with the urgency of its young narrator who bears witness to a world of desperate people flailing inside a broken system. Olya's mother Irina is a Russian émigré and self-serving liar, obsessed with becoming a prima ballerina and stalking Mikhail Baryshnikov. Cousin Jack is haunted by demons from the Afghanistan war--and the oft-absent Irina. Jack turns his obsession onto his untrainable dog named Bird that he kidnapped from the Riverside Police Department. To Olya, Bird is Job on four legs. \u003cem\u003eAway to Stay\u003c\/em\u003e is an off-beat and probing exploration of the precarity of shelter and home in the life of an immigrant and American working family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Kuryla's\u003c\/b\u003e collection \u003ci\u003eFreak Weather: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e won the AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was published by University of Massachusetts Press. Her stories have received The Pushcart Prize and the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Prize and appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review, Conjunctions, Agni, Epoch, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her award-winning shorts and feature films have premiered at Sundance and Toronto. She has written screen adaptations for studios and independents. Kuryla is a screenwriting professor in the School of Film and TV at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767732273440,"sku":"9781646030729","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1e5ced22d4888a470953adf37ad04e35.webp?v=1780316316","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/away-to-stay-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}