{"product_id":"the-meat-and-spirit-plan-paperback","title":"The Meat and Spirit Plan - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSelah Saterstrom\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searing coming-of-age novel set to the music of chance.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn lyric, diamond-cut prose, Selah Saterstrom revisits the pastoral, dead-end Southern town of Beau Repose, following our strung-out, fiercely intelligent narrator through her harrowing adolescence and into the academic halls and back alleys of Scotland. As the feverish St. Vitus's dance of her youth morphs into slow-motion inertia abroad, an illness brings her home again--to face the legacy of pain she left behind and to find a way to become the lead in a dance of her own creation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelah Saterstrom is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eSlab\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Meat and Spirit Plan\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Pink Institution\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Coffee House Press. Widely published and anthologized, she also curates Madame Harriette Presents, an occasional series. She teaches and lectures across the United States and is the director of Creative Writing at the University of Denver. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1974, Saterstrom grew up in Natchez, Jackson, and Pass Christian, Mississippi. She earned her bachelor's degree from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, her Masters in Theology and Literature from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and her MFA from Goddard College in Vermont. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eSoul Collections\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of prose and poetry written by at-risk teenagers in North Carolina and her work has recently appeared in \u003ci\u003eBig Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eCafé Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFourteen Hills\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTarpaulin Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEllipsis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCranbrook Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. \u003ci\u003eThe Meat and Spirit Plan\u003c\/i\u003e is her second novel and a portion of the author's proceeds will be donated to Our Voice, a nonprofit crisis intervention agency serving Western North Carolina and to the Kim Duckett Fund for Women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA former instructor at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, Saterstrom currently lives in Colorado and is on the faculty of the University of Denver's Creative Writing Program.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.5 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53477255676211,"sku":"9781566892018","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/qJknjxKOc9781566892018_48e04743-da99-4c0d-ae76-ffd8e4966a5e.webp?v=1781613855","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/the-meat-and-spirit-plan-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}