{"product_id":"girls-in-peril-isbn-9780977312726","title":"Girls in Peril","description":"\u003cb\u003eDuring a 1970s summer, five adolescent girls learn that peril exists where they never imagined: in their neighborhood and homes; in parents who steal their time and freedom (and, in one case, a thumb); in the pull of the world beyond their friendships; and in their own burgeoning sexuality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a sparkling debut, Karen Lee Boren offers an exquisitely rendered coming of age story about adolescent girls in small-town Wisconsin who learn that life’s real perils exist where they never imagined: in their own neighborhoods and homes. During a single summer in the 1970s, five friends while away the hours by torturing the Avon lady, playing four square, jumping rope, swimming, and perfecting the art of sneaking out for night runs to the lake. Then one night the unthinkable happens, forcing the girls into a world beyond childhood and the pull of young friendship.\u003cb\u003eKaren Lee Boren\u003c\/b\u003e received her MFA from Wichita State University and a PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She teaches literature and creative writing at Rhode Island College. Her fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eFlorida Review, Night Train, Karamu, Hawai’i Pacific Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Dominion Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her nonfiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eCream City Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the Lonely Planet anthology \u003ci\u003eRite of Passage: Tales of Backpacking ’Round Europe\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233194389733,"sku":"NP9780977312726","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780977312726.jpg?v=1767728163","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/girls-in-peril-isbn-9780977312726","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}