{"title":"Eliza Griswold","description":"Eliza Griswold is the author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, which won the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. Her translations of Afghan women's folk poems, I Am the Beggar of the World, was awarded the 2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has held fellowships from the New America Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Harvard University, and in 2010 the American Academy in Rome awarded her the Rome Prize for her poems. Currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University, she lives in New York with her husband and son.","products":[{"product_id":"amity-and-prosperity-one-family-and-the-fracturing-of-america-paperback","title":"Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Amity and Prosperity\u003c\/i\u003e, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. 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Soon a community that has long been suspicious of outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who is responsible for their fate, and for redressing it: The faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values, and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376942121183,"sku":"9781250215079","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7R-iy7oHUF9781250215079.webp?v=1789229040"},{"product_id":"i-am-the-beggar-of-the-world-landays-from-contemporary-afghanistan-paperback","title":"I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet-a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than 20 million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. War, separation, homeland, love-these are the subjects of landays, which are brutal and spare, can be remixed like rap, and are powerful in that they make no attempts to be literary. From Facebook to drone strikes to the songs of the ancient caravans that first brought these poems to Afghanistan thousands of years ago, landays reflect contemporary Pashtun life and the impact of three decades of war. 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Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for--and finding--more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the story of one such \"radical outpost of Jesus followers\" dedicated to service, the Sermon on the Mount, and working toward justice for all in this life, not just salvation for some in the next. Part of a little-known yet influential movement at the edge of American evangelicalism, Philadelphia's Circle of Hope grew for forty years, planted four congregations, and then found itself in crisis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story that follows is an American allegory full of questions with urgent relevance for so many of us, not just the faithful: How do we commit to one another and our better selves in a fracturing world? Where does power live? Can it be shared? 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