{"product_id":"this-is-only-a-test-9780253018175","title":"This Is Only a Test","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B. J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 tornado. There, while huddled in a bathtub in their Alabama home, mortality flashed before their eyes. With the last of his computer battery, Hollars began recounting the experience, and would continue to do so in the following years, writing his way out of one disaster only to find himself caught up in another. Tornadoes, drownings, and nuclear catastrophes force him to acknowledge the inexplicable, while he attempts to overcome his greatest fear--the impossibility of protecting his newborn son from the world's cruelties. Hollars creates a constellation of grief, tapping into the rarely acknowledged intersection between fatherhood and fear, sacrifice and safety, and the humbling effect of losing control of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e B. J. Hollars\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Break Away Book Club Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253018175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eB. J. Hollars is author of two award-winning nonfiction books, \u003ci\u003eThirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOpening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eSightings \u003c\/i\u003e(IUP, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eDispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e. He is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Break Away Book Club Edition","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39943775518835,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2586cfdd-7ff2-47e0-9d95-274f81f88cb8.jpg?v=1648215222","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/this-is-only-a-test-9780253018175","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}