{"product_id":"call-up-the-waters-stories-paperback","title":"Call Up the Waters: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmber Caron\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA magnetic debut collection of stories about the daily lives and labors of girls and women in rural America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCall Up the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e, the natural world is an escape hatch, a refuge, a site of work, and an occasional antagonist. In the title story, a devastating drought leads a mother of two deep into the Colorado Rockies in search of water. In \"The Handler,\" a woman leaves her boyfriend for the New Hampshire woods and fifty-seven sled dogs. A distress call from a boat in Massachusetts Bay compels a mother, in \"Sea Women,\" to plumb her daughter's secrets. A girl torn between truth and expectation shows her courage in a funereal performance in \"Barn Burning.\" And in \"Bending the Map,\" a woman turns the tables on her obsessive, would-be lover after a powerful storm ravages her canyon home.\u003cp\u003eThe characters in these ten stories--search-and-rescue workers, dog trainers, naturalists, archaeologists, and dowsers--are each fundamentally shaped by the environment in which they live and work. They seek meaning through labor, connection through jobs. But in that searching they often find themselves far from their destination. Familiar landscapes suddenly feel strange. Unfamiliar spaces offer something like hope. Off the map and off the grid, these characters, and their regrets and devotions, are nevertheless immediately, intimately recognizable.\u003c\/p\u003eSharply observant but steadily elegant, textured with empathy and grit, \u003ci\u003eCall Up the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmber Caron\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eCall Up the Waters\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eThreepenny Review, PEN America Best Debut Short Stories, AGNI, Bennington Review, Southwest Review, Kenyon Review Online, Longreads, Writer's Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the PEN\/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, \u003cem\u003eSouthwest Review\u003c\/em\u003e's McGinnis-Ritchie Award for fiction, and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars and an assistant fiction editor at \u003cem\u003eAGNI\u003c\/em\u003e, she lives and works in Logan, Utah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760888283424,"sku":"9781639550449","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/feae5e57be978c3ab6c13e1abc9b9617.webp?v=1780193225","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/call-up-the-waters-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}