{"title":"Travis Mulhauser","description":"Travis Mulhauser was born and raised in Northern Michigan. His novel, Sweetgirl (Ecco\/Harper Collins), was listed for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, an Indie Next Pick, and named one of Ploughshares Best Books of the New Year. He is also the author of Greetings from Cutler County: A Novella and Stories. Travis received his MFA in Fiction from UNC-Greensboro and is also a proud graduate of North Central Michigan College and Central Michigan University. He lives currently in Durham, North Carolina with his wife and two children.","products":[{"product_id":"the-trouble-up-north-paperback","title":"The Trouble Up North - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn atmospheric, haunting novel about the Sawbrooks, a family of bootleggers with a troubled history and a deep connection to the Michigan land that binds them.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Sawbrooks have spent decades crisscrossing the waterways and vast forests between Northern Michigan and Canada to make their way as smugglers. Those hidden routes through the border's nooks and crannies are their legacy, but they no longer pay the bills. The world has changed; the resorts, with their fancy clientele, are infringing on their space, and the Sawbrooks find themselves deeply fractured, clutching at their past and the last vestiges of a once close family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rhoda, the tough-as-nails matriarch, is caring for her dying husband while finding herself disappointed in her three adult grandchildren. The eldest daughter, Lucy, is now a park ranger, working to federally protect the land against her mother's will, while Buckner, the only boy, is drinking his life away. Jewell, the baby of the family, is her mother's last hope, but when she tries to save them all in one fell swoop she becomes ensnared in a crime of escalating proportions. The Sawbrooks will have to contend with the old familial ways and the new shifting world, and face each other--and their pain-filled past--to save one of their own.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101201469663,"sku":"9781538767993","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UIPdO0P0xz9781538767993.webp?v=1781068458"},{"product_id":"fair-chase-hardcover","title":"Fair Chase - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Travis Mulhauser, \"who always honors his characters with firebrand intelligence, knife-sharp wit, and reckless heart,\" (Nickolas Butler) comes the gripping story of a desperately hopeful foster child who's searching for his family--even though they're dangerous, complicated, and never see him coming. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e There hasn't been a gray wolf in Michigan's lower peninsula in over 100 years, but when one migrates onto the Sawbrook family's vast acreage, the small community of Cutler finds itself in the throes of a panic. A trail of mutilated chickens and barn cats have peppered the area's remote outskirts, and concerns about safety are accompanied by the economic and political cost of an endangered species' uninvited return to northern Michigan. The Sawbrook siblings--Lucy, Buckner, and Jewell--find themselves at odds with locals, property owners, and the state's department of resources. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When fourteen-year-old runaway, Delos Harris, arrives on the family property claiming to be the siblings' second cousin, and to have knowledge of the wolf's exact location, the Sawbrooks are skeptical, but desperate, and can't deny something about the boy seems oddly familiar. With time running out, they forge ahead together against gathering threats. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The state wants the wolf moved, the locals and the developers want it dead, and the Sawbrooks see its return as a decisive victory in their battle to preserve the natural world in northern Michigan. But when a poacher is hired to settle the matter permanently, the Sawbrooks must fight to protect each other, their land, and the brave child whose mysterious connection to the wolf will either save them all, or deliver the Sawbrooks to their final ruin.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101203402975,"sku":"9781538768013","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Y3FcYdl8Bj9781538768013.webp?v=1781068462"},{"product_id":"fair-chase-paperback","title":"Fair Chase - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Travis Mulhauser, \"who always honors his characters with firebrand intelligence, knife-sharp wit, and reckless heart,\" (Nickolas Butler) comes the gripping story of a desperately hopeful foster child who's searching for his family--even though they're dangerous, complicated, and never see him coming. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e There hasn't been a gray wolf in Michigan's lower peninsula in over 100 years, but when one migrates onto the Sawbrook family's vast acreage, the small community of Cutler finds itself in the throes of a panic. 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