{"product_id":"kind-one-paperback","title":"Kind One - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaird Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for 2013 PEN\/Faulkner Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is always a surprise in the voice and in the heart of Laird Hunt's stories, with its echoes of habit caught in a timeless dialect, so we see the world he gives us as if new. 'You hear something like that and it walks out the door with you.'\"--Michael Ondaatje\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Laird Hunt's \u003ci\u003eKind One\u003c\/i\u003e, about two slave girls who take their white mistress into captivity, is a profound meditation on the sexual and racial subconscious of America. . . . [A] gorgeous and terrifying novel.\"--Danzy Senna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a teenage girl, Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother's second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm \"ninety miles from nowhere.\" In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny discovers the empty promises of Linus' \"paradise\"--a place where the charms of her husband fall away to reveal a troubled man and cruel slave owner. Ginny befriends the young slaves Cleome and Zinnia who work at the farm--until Linus' attentions turn to them, and she finds herself torn between her husband and only companions. The events that follow Linus' death change all three women for life. Haunting, chilling, and suspenseful, \u003ci\u003eKind One\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful tale of redemption and human endurance in antebellum America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaird Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several works of fiction and a finalist for the 2010 PEN Center USA Award in Fiction. Currently on the faculty of the University of Denver's creative writing program, he and his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, live in Boulder, Colorado, with their daughter, Eva Grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaird Hunt is the author of four novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Impossibly, Indiana, Indiana, The Exquisite, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRay of the Star\u003c\/i\u003e, and a book of short stories, histories, and parables, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e His writings, reviews and translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's, Ploughshares, Bomb, Bookforum, Grand Street, The Believer, Fence, Conjunctions, Brick, Mentor, Inculte, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZoum Zoum\u003c\/i\u003e. Currently on faculty in the University of Denver's Creative Writing Program, he and his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, live in Boulder, Colorado, with their daughter, Eva Grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e PEN\/Faulkner Award (2013)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695234224191,"sku":"9781566893114","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0f6e55c6d5fb1fa01f6c4e7896f4a5be.webp?v=1765003072","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/kind-one-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}