{"product_id":"body-and-bread-9781938126062","title":"Body and Bread","description":"\u003cp\u003eYears after her brother Sam's suicide, Sarah Pelton remains unable to fully occupy her world without him in it. Now, while her surviving brothers prepare to sell the family's tenant farm and a young woman's life hangs in the balance, Sarah is forced to confront the life Sam lived and the secrets he left behind. As she assembles the artifacts of her family's history in east Texas in the hope of discovering her own future, images from her work as an anthropologist--images of sacrifice, ritual, and death--haunt her waking dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this moving debut novel, Nan Cuba unearths the power of family legacies and the indelible imprint of loss on all our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNan Cuba\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center, and is currently an assistant professor of English at Our Lady of the Lake University. As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in publications such as \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eD Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories, poems, and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eQuarterly West\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColumbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eArt at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers \u0026amp; Artists\u003c\/i\u003e (Trinity University Press, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4055540\"\u003eNan Cuba\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Engine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938126062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1938126068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC044000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC045000\"\u003eFamily Life | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNan Cuba received her MFA in fiction from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center (www.geminiink.org), was twice the runner-up for the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, and received a Fundación Valparaiso Residency Grant in Mojácar, Spain. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Our Lady of the Lake University. As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in publications such as \u003ci\u003eLIFE\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eD Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e Her stories, poems, and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eQuarterly West, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry \u0026amp; Prose\u003c\/i\u003e (runner-up for the journal's fiction award), \u003ci\u003eBloomsbury Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review, \u003c\/i\u003e among others. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eArt at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers \u0026amp; Artists\u003c\/i\u003e (Trinity University Press, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Engine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43325275406573,"sku":"9781938126062","price":19.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_b40f6bd0-ec2b-422c-9ffa-bb320e019578.jpg?v=1663343317","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/body-and-bread-9781938126062","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}