{"product_id":"how-strange-a-season-fiction-hardcover","title":"How Strange a Season: Fiction - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMegan Mayhew Bergman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dazzling.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Richly satisfying.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"These are stories you want to live in...a collection perfectly suited for our moment.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of stories \"so beautifully crafted they feel like tiny worlds unto themselves\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) about women experiencing all life's beauty and challenges, from award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with rare flowers to establish control over a small world and attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this \"closely observed\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker) \u003c\/i\u003ecollection, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. \"Bergman's stories are so emotionally rich that they serve as portals into distinct interior worlds...this collection is distinct and vivid...As singular as it is atmospheric\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMegan Mayhew Bergman\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eBirds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e How Strange a Season\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short fiction has appeared in two volumes of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and on NPR's\u003ci\u003e Selected Shorts. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has written columns on climate change and the natural world for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review. \u003c\/i\u003eHer work has been featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She teaches literature and environmental writing at Middlebury College, where she also serves as director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference. She lives in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.5 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53496236146995,"sku":"9781476713106","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OCRlmVc_9_9781476713106.webp?v=1781596975","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/how-strange-a-season-fiction-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}