{"title":"Andrew Krivak","description":"Andrew Krivak is an award-winning writer whose books include Mule Boy; The Bear, a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read selection; and the freestanding novels of the Dardan Trilogy: The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and Like the Appearance of Horses, a Library Journal \"Best Book of the Year\" and Indie Next List for Reading Groups selection. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.","products":[{"product_id":"like-the-appearance-of-horses-paperback","title":"Like the Appearance of Horses - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNow in paperback from Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak--a novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, \u003ci\u003eLike the Appearance of Horses\u003c\/i\u003e immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of the past century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spare, breathtaking prose, Andrew Krivak delivers a deeply compassionate story about three generations who built a new life in America, participated in the Romani resistance during World War II, survived Vietnamese POW camps, watched their children deploy to Iraq, and did everything they could to heal the wounds of war when the fighting was over.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101574926559,"sku":"9781954276314","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/L6ONsyuE3C9781954276314.webp?v=1781071751"},{"product_id":"mule-boy-paperback","title":"Mule Boy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn elegiac novel of men lost in a coal mining disaster and the boy who survives to tell the story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn New Year's Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the thirteen-year-old son of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania coal country, begins a new job as mule boy. He knows the danger--his father died in the mines--but he is proud of his position handling the animal that hauls cartloads of coal from shafts deep within the earth to the surface. After Ondro earns the trust of the miners and the mule in his charge, the room the men are working collapses and their fate is sealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom that moment onward, Ondro carries the hard memory of that day, a burden that leads to addiction and imprisonment, costing him his family. But, years later, when the miners' loved ones come searching for answers, he finds the strength to share what the men spoke of and prayed for in the pitch black.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in incantatory prose set to the rhythm of human breath, this sublime novel turns the \u003ci\u003ememento mori\u003c\/i\u003e into a meditation not only on death but on what it takes to tunnel through darkness and live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102280061151,"sku":"9781954276468","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/fWZTWDi6XN9781954276468.webp?v=1781079273"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/andrew-krivak.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}