{"product_id":"reconsidering-happiness-9780803225213","title":"Reconsidering Happiness","description":"The two silent Ss of Des Moines beckon twenty-three-year-old Vivette with a sexy finger, a promise. So, in the mid-1990s, she convinces Grandpa Joe-Joe to sell his Buick for twenty dollars, leaves behind her friends, her job at a hip New England bakery, and an affair with a married man, and moves to Iowa. Margaret, who left the same bakery years earlier on her own restless quest, offers pointers from her cautiously settled Nebraska life. In a story of lust and longing, love and loneliness, disappointment and desire stretching from the East Coast to the West, these two pioneering women navigate through secrets, lies, decisions, and compromises shared over pool tables, postcards, and shots of whiskey. Starting up, starting over, slowing down, they crisscross each other's lives like highways on a map, always escaping, flying toward a dreamt future, and trying to avoid the charted course. Sherrie Flick is the author of the award-winning flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Norton's Flash Fiction Forward and New Sudden Fiction. A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, she works in Pittsburgh as a freelance writer and artistic director for the Gist Street Reading Series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sherrie Flick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.58w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803225213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/20\/2009 pg. 121\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherrie Flick\u003c\/b\u003e is author of the flash fiction chapbook \u003ci\u003eI Call This Flirting \u003c\/i\u003eand the short story collection \u003ci\u003eWhiskey, Etc.\u003c\/i\u003e, a bronze prize winner for the \u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e INDIES best short story collection of 2017. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Flash Fiction Forward\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew Sudden Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship and residencies from Ucross, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Atlantic Center for the Arts, she teaches in the MFA and Food Studies programs at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and serves as co-director of the Chautauqua Writers' Festival. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40214568796275,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ec3f0dd4-f0a6-4755-a17d-7eddfc352c6a.jpg?v=1656509930","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/reconsidering-happiness-9780803225213","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}