{"product_id":"call-it-horses-9781950539253","title":"Call It Horses","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Dzanc Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSet in small-town West Virginia in the twilight of the eighties, \u003ci\u003eCall It Horses\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of three women—niece, aunt, and stowaway—and an improbable road trip.\n\u003cp\u003e\nFrankie is an orphan (or a reluctant wife). Mave is an autodidact (or the town pariah). Nan is an artist (or the town whore). Each separately haunted, Frankie, Mave, and Nan—with a hound in tow—set out in an Oldsmobile Royale for Abiquiú and the desert of Georgia O’Keeffe, seeking an escape from everything they’ve known.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nFrankie records the journey in letters to her aunt Mave’s dead lover, a linguist named Ruth, sketching out her troubled life and her complicated relationship with Mave, who became her guardian when Frankie was orphaned at sixteen. Slowly, one letter at a time, Frankie exposes the ruins of herself and her fellow passengers: things that chase them, that died too soon, that never lived.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nWith lush prose and brutal empathy, Frankie tells Ruth—and herself—the story of liminality experienced by a woman standing just outside of motherhood, fulfillment, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jessie van Eerden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42981640208502,"sku":"9781950539253","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_768af86a-40be-44ca-92f5-d199283438bf.jpg?v=1771709355","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/call-it-horses-9781950539253","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}