{"title":"Matt Bell","description":"Matt Bell is the author of the novel In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, a Michigan Notable Book, and an Indies Choice Adult Debut Book of the Year Honor Recipient, as well as the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award. His stories have appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, The American Reader, and many other publications. Born in Michigan, he now teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.","products":[{"product_id":"appleseed-paperback","title":"Appleseed - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell's \u003cem\u003eAppleseed\u003c\/em\u003e is as urgent as it is audacious.\" --Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eGet in Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \"breathtaking novel of ideas unlike anything you've ever read\" (\u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e) from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. 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One lonely sentient being inhabits a tech station on top of the glacier--and in a daring and seemingly impossible quest, sets out to follow a homing beacon across the continent in the hopes of discovering the last remnant of civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHugely ambitious in scope and theme, \u003cem\u003eAppleseed\u003c\/em\u003e is the breakout novel from a writer \"as self-assured as he is audacious\" (NPR) who \"may well have invented the pulse-pounding novel of ideas\" (Jess Walter). 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Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a part of the city known as \"the zone,\" an increasingly wild landscape where one day he finds something far more valuable than the copper he's come to steal: a kidnapped boy, crying out for rescue. Briefly celebrated as a hero, Kelly secretly avenges the boy's unsolved kidnapping, a task that will take him deeper into the zone and into a confrontation with his own past and long-buried traumas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe second novel from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eIn the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScrapper\u003c\/i\u003e is a devastating reimagining of one of America's greatest cities, its beautiful architecture, its lost houses, shuttered factories, boxing gyms, and storefront churches. With precise, powerful prose, it asks: What do we owe for our crimes, even those we've committed to protect the people we love?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101861744863,"sku":"9781616957650","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/F_-UFDyWqJ9781616957650.webp?v=1781075782"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/matt-bell.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}