{"product_id":"the-beautiful-plain-paperback","title":"The Beautiful Plain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Sinor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet amid the cornfields of central Nebraska, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Plain\u003c\/i\u003e opens on a hot afternoon in a hay barn, where three adolescents push a cardboard box filled with a girl to the edge of the loft. What begins as a prank will reverberate for decades, especially for Laura, who learns that afternoon just how far she will travel for acceptance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRejected by her former husband and with her precocious child in tow, Laura returns to her hometown of Platte, Nebraska, to see if she can recover what was sent to the ground that summer afternoon long ago. Immersed in the unassuming beauty of the Great Plains and following a single year of one woman's life, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Plain\u003c\/i\u003e invites the reader to reconsider where beauty and grace reside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Sinor\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Yogic Writer: Uniting Breath, Body, and Page\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2020); \u003ci\u003eLetters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O'Keeffe\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Trauma: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches creative writing at Utah State University, where she is a professor of English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68363399069919,"sku":"9781496248039","price":29.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Pm7xxyKhKn9781496248039.webp?v=1793649095","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-beautiful-plain-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}