{"product_id":"fishwives-paperback","title":"Fishwives - 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\u003eSally Bellerose\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighty-nine-year-old Regina and ninety-year-old Jackie met in 1955, an era when women were rounded up and jailed simply for dancing together or dressing like a man. On a cold winter day they manage to get themselves out of the house with the help of TJ and Ramon, two young men from their working-class neighborhood in Western Massachusetts. They tie their long-dead Christmas tree to the top of their car and, using a screwdriver in place of a broken gearshift, slowly make the drive to the dump.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is also the day when everything changes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring the course of their adventure, memories are triggered. Their history as a passionate and devoted, but troubled couple at the intersection of historic cultural and political change unfolds via scenes from the past--including their first meeting during a police raid on a bar and Regina's epiphany that she could truly love another woman. In the early years, they often live apart as they flee landlords who discover their secret. As their journey leads them to seek jobs and a sustainable life, they are sometimes separated--but always find their way back to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e Combining the pathos and social significance of \u003ci\u003eFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Caf \u003c\/i\u003e and the humor of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden\u003c\/i\u003e with a cast of diverse characters worthy of the musical \u003ci\u003eRent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFishwives\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles a lifetime through the eyes of two old women behaving badly.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSally Bellerose is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls Club\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the NEA. Excerpts from the novel have been published in \u003ci\u003eSinister Wisdom, The Sun, The Best of Writers at Work, Cutthroat, Quarterly West\u003c\/i\u003e and won the Rick De Marinis Award, the Writers at Work Award, and a Barbara Deming Award. The manuscript was a finalist for the James Jones Fellowship, the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, The Backspace Scholarship, a Lambda Literary Award, an Independent Publishers Award, and a Golden Crown Literary Society Award. As an author, she loves to mess with rhythm, rhyme, and awkward emotion. She is also drawn to humor and transcendence. She writes about class, sex, sexuality, gender, illness, absurdity, and lately, growing old.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47249790238969,"sku":"9781612941899","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TTdIZitGa0R6eUhyVnQ3UmJMdDZhUT09.webp?v=1768652807","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/fishwives-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}