{"product_id":"salvage-this-world-isbn-9780316413633","title":"Salvage This World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Michael Farris Smith's latest \"riveting\" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may be the region's savior. (Laird Hunt, National Book Award-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eZorrie \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNeverhome\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the pulpit, in the shadows she sows the seeds of violence.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Elsewhere, Jessie and her toddler, Jace, are on the run across the Mississippi\/Louisiana line, in a resentful return to her childhood home and her desolate father. Holt, Jace's father, is missing and hunted by a brutish crowd, and an old man witnesses the wrong thing in the depths of night. In only a matter of days, all of their lives will collide, and be altered, in the maelstrom of the changing world.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e At once elegiac and profound, \u003ci\u003eSalvage This World\u003c\/i\u003e journeys into the heart of a region growing darker and less forgiving, and asks how we keep going—what do we hold onto—in a land where God has fled.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGarden \u0026amp; Gun Top Reads of 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e• \u003cb\u003eBibliolifestyle Best Literary Fiction of 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e•\u003cb\u003e Southern Living Southern Writers to Read Right Now\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891408204005,"sku":"NP9780316413633","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/67cbcc45-70c1-4e46-964f-aee90169ad59.jpg?v=1767872800","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/salvage-this-world-isbn-9780316413633","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}