{"product_id":"the-bewildered-isbn-9781940436388","title":"The Bewildered","description":"In Portland, Orgeon, three high school friends—Leon, Chris and Kayla—spend their time skateboarding studying foreign languages and classical music, and plotting a shared future that will avoid the superficiality they witness in the adult world around them. There is only one adult they admire, whom they suspect might hold secrets worth knowing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNatalie lives alone in a decrepit trailer, yet seems happy, and to have few concerns. As they befriend her she persuades them to harvest copper wire from the high tension electrical lines in the countryside around the city, until one day when there is an accident in which Leon is electrocuted. He appears to shake it off, yet soon—despite his denials of anything being wrong—his behavior comes to resemble Natalie's in many ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mystery of what has happened to Leon (and to Natalie) leads Kayla and Chris on an adventure that takes them into the world of a remarkable group of people. These people live among us and are almost impossible to recognize, yet they possess different needs, and different powers. What they do not possess is insight into their condition, or any awareness that they are different. Others are left to wonder at—and attempt to profit from—the possibilities these people contain. Chris and Kayla are not alone in attempting to study, to use, and perhaps even to join their ranks.\u003cb\u003ePeter Rock\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in Salt Lake City. His most recent novel is \u003ci\u003eThe Shelter Cycle\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eMy Abandonment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThis Is the Place\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCarnival Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bewildered\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ambidextrist\u003c\/i\u003e, and a story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Unsettling\u003c\/i\u003e. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared and been anthologized widely, and his books published in various countries and languages. The recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Alex Award and others, he currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he is a Professor in the English Department of Reed College.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233627648229,"sku":"NP9781940436388","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781940436388.jpg?v=1767738346","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-bewildered-isbn-9781940436388","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}