{"product_id":"hit-your-brights-stories-9780806162478","title":"Hit Your Brights: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eHit Your Brights \u003c\/em\u003ecaptures people in tough spots, often of their own making. Fusing humor and tragedy, these thirteen gritty stories keep readers in suspense. Danger lurks, the needle skips, the bomb goes off, and the empties pile up. Outcomes are unpredictable, but the car always starts, and, sometimes, love wins.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Constance Squires casts the diminished circumstances of her characters with authentic detail familiar to any reader who has spent time in flyover country--a swath of boom-and-bust middle America that often seems forgotten. Here, marriages, families, and friendships all hit crisis points in a mutable world of army bases, casinos, truck stops, churches, and bars.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eHit Your Brights\u003c\/em\u003e showcases a virtuosic range of styles and perspectives. The title story, told in second person, excavates the rationalizations of an alcoholic stumbling through the inexorable progress of her disease. After downing nine Rolling Rocks and three tequila shots, she races her car to the nearest liquor store before it closes, turning on her high beams to ease her double vision.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \"Dopamine Agonistes,\" a family man, recently diagnosed with Parkinson's, ventures out to a casino and meets a child he tries to help. Other stories focus on people who find themselves in difficult, potentially violent situations. In \"Wounding Radius,\" two young women are checking on their marijuana crop in the Wichita Mountains outside of Fort Sill when they are discovered by a troubled soldier who has gone AWOL. And in \"An Unscheduled Stop,\" a mother traveling with her baby encounters diners at a roadside McDonald's who might--or might not--be child traffickers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Beautifully crafted, with a distinctly modern edge, the stories in \u003cem\u003eHit Your Brights\u003c\/em\u003e give voice to women and men, young and old, overlooked and disenfranchised, who inhabit worlds that feel at once strange and familiar.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Constance Squires\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806162478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSquires, Constance:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eConstance Squires\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAlong the Watchtower: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e. Her numerous short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and other magazines. She teaches creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40151914283123,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_faec2998-4e80-4298-b505-9e4a4828a1e6.jpg?v=1654781691","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/hit-your-brights-stories-9780806162478","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}