{"product_id":"super-america-9780820333472","title":"Super America","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn settings as different as Honolulu, Hawaii, small-town Minnesota, and Taxco, Mexico, these nine stories and a novella show blue-collar characters struggling to achieve the American Dream--and sometimes alienating friends and family as they try to upgrade their working-class pedigree. Anne Panning's people, despite their mixed record of success, make us root for them on their sometimes heartbreaking journeys of entrepreneurship, love, and loss. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Tidal Wave Wedding\" a tsunami in Honolulu yields surprising results for a couple on their honeymoon. In \"All-U-Can-Eat,\" a woman tries to stave off the investment of her inheritance into a restaurant specializing in frog legs. In the novella, \"Freeze,\" a teenage son's future is forever complicated after a \"life altering\" accident confines his father to a wheelchair and accelerates the disintegration of his parents' marriage. An eerie clinical replay of another accident--this one on a bicycle in Hawaii--is at the center of \"What Happened,\" and in the title story a college theater major gets caught up in his father's exotic pets scheme. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePanning's stories show an acute awareness of place, and--whether it be a seventeenth-century former-monastery in Mexico, a suburban housing development in Minnesota, or a hard-luck laundromat on the Oregon coast--each setting often tells us something about the characters who occupy them. Sometimes sad and often funny, \u003ci\u003eSuper America\u003c\/i\u003e takes risks with our notions about the American Dream through characters caught between their working-class roots and grandiose visions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Panning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820333472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/10\/2009 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANNE PANNING Flannery O'Connor Award winner in 2006 for Super America, is also the author of a previous short story collection and a novel. Her memoir \u003ci\u003eDragonfly Notes: On Distance and Loss\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from Stillhouse Press. She teaches creative writing at SUNY-Brockport, where she lives with her family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40195950542963,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_93f84a47-73ab-4b6a-be3d-5f187fc214bb.jpg?v=1655992693","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/super-america-9780820333472","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}