{"product_id":"superior-stories-9781950744268","title":"Superior Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Superior Stories,\" winner of the 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest in fiction, is a series of six short stories which explore the lives of people who live in the northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Keweenaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bryan Gruley (award-winning author of Bitterfrost, Starvation Lake, and other novels) notes, \"In her linked story collection, 'Superior Stories, ' Helen Raica-Klotz takes readers deep into the physical and emotional lives of regular people trying and often failing to do the right thing--for themselves, their families, their friends, and their northern Michigan worlds. Raica-Klotz conjures evocative settings and richly layered up-north characters with language that is at once concrete and elegiac, painting a hard yet enchanting landscape of tarpaper roofs, black ice, and hoar frost-a travelogue of human hope and grief, aspiration and desperation.\"\u003c\/p\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-1646081\"\u003eHelen Raica-Klotz\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michigan Writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.12d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950744268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950744264\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-FAM\"\u003eFamily \u0026amp; Relationships\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FAM000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-NAT\"\u003eNature\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-NAT000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michigan Writers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48456898674925,"sku":"9781950744268","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_706d8694-84f2-4f42-ad19-f04d1ee38300.jpg?v=1753572413","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/superior-stories-9781950744268","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}