{"product_id":"bear-county-michigan-stories-paperback-softback-9780810148017","title":"Bear County, Michigan; Stories (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810148017","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBear County, Michigan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Counts (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810148017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"With a sharp eye for telling detail, John Counts takes a hard look at hard lives. Prepare to be intrigued and troubled.\"—Ellen Airgood, author of \u003ci\u003eTin Camp Road\u003c\/i\u003e “Moving and inspiring, \u003ci\u003eBear County, Michigan \u003c\/i\u003eis familiar and urgent in its telling as it recounts the struggles, complications, and wonder of the world outside our over-documented metropolis. This book demonstrates a complete and compelling understanding of character-driven storytelling and leaves the reader feeling as if they too are part of this wholly imagined, and yet viscerally real, world.” —Joe Meno, author of \u003ci\u003eBook of Extraordinary Tragedies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing desperate characters in desperate circumstances in the rural Midwest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In these colorful, darkly comic stories, veteran journalist and crime reporter John Counts takes readers to an often-ignored part of the country: a fictional Great Lakes coastal town in northern Michigan defined by beauty and bleakness. The cast of characters in these connected stories ranges from addicts to backwoods misfits to ruined lumber families, all bound together by their desire to obtain something just out of reach. Big Frank breaks out of a rehab facility trying to outrun grief. The women in the village of Brotherhood grapple with sterility resulting from an environmental calamity. A local politician must convince her mother to leave a nudist colony. And in the final, sweeping story, a splinter group from the local tribe attempts to reclaim its ancestral land by force. The people of Bear County and their predicaments encompass the wildly original and yet totally ordinary truths about American life off the beaten track.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBig Frank\u003cbr\u003e The Women of Brotherhood\u003cbr\u003e The Skull House\u003cbr\u003e Bonecutters\u003cbr\u003e Lucy and the Bear\u003cbr\u003e The Final Voyage\u003cbr\u003e Lady of Comfort\u003cbr\u003e Compensation\u003cbr\u003e Rich Girl Blues\u003cbr\u003e The Hermit and the Pickle Princess\u003cbr\u003e The Nudists\u003cbr\u003e The Standoff\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Triquarterly","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555667833112,"sku":"9780810148017","price":17.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bear-county-michigan-stories-paperback-softback-9780810148017","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}