{"product_id":"float-up-sing-down-stories-paperback","title":"Float Up, Sing Down: Stories - 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\u003eLaird Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaird Hunt's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"revelatory (\u003ci\u003eNYT\u003c\/i\u003e)\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist \u003ci\u003eZorrie \u003c\/i\u003ebloomed.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCandy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy Swirl, but that's not where she's really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFloat Up, Sing Down \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a single day. But in that day, how much teeming life! The residents of this rural town have their routines, their preferences, their joys, grudges, and regrets. Gossip is paramount. Lives are entwined. Retired sheriffs climb corn bins and muse on lost love, French teachers throw firecrackers out of barn windows, and teenagers borrow motorcycles to ride the back roads. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach of the fourteen stories of \u003ci\u003eFloat Up, Sing Down\u003c\/i\u003e follows one character's day in the life in one of Hunt's most beloved and enduring landscapes. In the tradition of Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Elizabeth Strout, and Edward P. Jones, this is a symphony of souls, a masterful portrait of both loneliness and community by one of our great limners of American experience.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaird Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eZorrie\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Award.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHunt has been a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won the Anisfield--Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, and Italy's Bridge Book Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, Hunt teaches in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University and lives in Providence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.2 x 5.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45451167989804,"sku":"9781639738274","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/idUlIoHgb79781639738274.webp?v=1776127832","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/float-up-sing-down-stories-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}