{"title":"Andrew Porter","description":"ANDREW PORTER is the author of the story collections The Disappeared and The Theory of Light and Matter and the novel In Between Days. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has received a Pushcart Prize, a James Michener\/Copernicus Fellowship, and the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His short story \"Angelo\" was selected by Celeste Ng for the 2025 Best American Short Stories, and his work has appeared in One Story, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Narrative, The Southern Review, and on public radio's Selected Shorts. Currently, he teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX.","products":[{"product_id":"the-imagined-life-hardcover","title":"The Imagined Life - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer, a taut, elegiac novel about a man trying to uncover the truth about the father who left him behind\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteven Mills has reached a crossroads. His wife and son have left, and they may not return. Which leaves him determined to find out what happened to his own father, a brilliant, charismatic professor who disappeared in 1984 when Steve was twelve, on a wave of ignominy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Steve drives up the coast of California, seeking out his father's friends, family members, and former colleagues, the novel offers us tantalizing glimpses into Steve's childhood--his parents' legendary pool parties, the black-and-white films on the backyard projector, secrets shared with his closest friend. Each conversation in the present reveals another layer of his father's past, another insight into his disappearance. Yet with every revelation, his father becomes more difficult to recognize. And, with every insight, Steve must confront truths about his own life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRich in atmosphere, and with a stunningly sure-footed emotional compass, \u003ci\u003eThe Imagined Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a probing, nostalgic novel about the impossibility of understanding one's parents, about first loves and failures, about lost innocence, about the unbreakable bonds between a father and a son.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103128654047,"sku":"9780593538050","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZJjVyaeOHE9780593538050.webp?v=1781090341"},{"product_id":"in-between-days-paperback","title":"In Between Days - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Andrew Porter is a born storyteller . . . He makes his own space instantly and invites you in. Hats off \" --Barry Hannah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From a commanding new voice in fiction comes a novel as perceptive as it is generous: a portrait of an American family trying to cope in our world today, a story of choices and doubts and transgressions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Hardings are teetering on the brink. Elson--once one of Houston's most promising architects, who never quite lived up to expectations--is recently divorced from his wife of thirty years, Cadence. Their grown son, Richard, is still living at home: driving his mother's minivan, working at a local coffee shop, resisting the career as a writer that beckons him. But when Chloe Harding gets kicked out of her East Coast college, for reasons she can't explain to either her parents or her older brother, the Hardings' lives start to unravel. Chloe returns to Houston, but the dangers set in motion back at school prove inescapable. Told with piercing insight, taut psychological suspense, and the wisdom of a true master of character, this is a novel about the vagaries of love and family, about betrayal and forgiveness, about the possibility and impossibility of coming home.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103182557407,"sku":"9780307475183","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1v-1sDQQO69780307475183.webp?v=1781090444"},{"product_id":"the-disappeared-stories-paperback","title":"The Disappeared: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our lives, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of Light and Matter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What a beautiful book about the profound mystery of ordinary life.\" --Alix Ohlin, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Want What We Want\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous codependency. With gorgeous sensitivity, assurance, and a propulsive sense of menace, these stories center on disappearances both literal and figurative--lives and loves that are cut short, the vanishing of one's youthful self. From San Antonio to Austin, from the clamor of a crowded restaurant to the cigarette at a lonely kitchen table, Andrew Porter captures each of these relationships mid-flight, every individual life punctuated by loss and beauty and need. \u003ci\u003eThe Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e reaffirms the undeniable artistry of a contemporary master of the form.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103739711711,"sku":"9780593467411","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zolNLf7Jpa9780593467411.webp?v=1781097539"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/andrew-porter.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}