{"product_id":"off-season","title":"Off Season","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see, taste, and feel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel \u003ci\u003eOff Season\u003c\/i\u003e, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s loss to Hillary Clinton, Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump, and the disorienting months that followed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe see a father navigating life as a single parent and coping with the disintegration of a life-defining relationship. Amid the upheaval lie tender moments with his kids—a sleeping child being carried in from the car, Christmas-morning anticipation, a late-night cookie after a temper tantrum—and fallible humans drenched in palpable feelings of grief, rage, loss, and overwhelming love. Using anthropomorphized characters as a tactic for tempering an otherwise emotionally fraught situation, \u003ci\u003eOff Season\u003c\/i\u003e is unaffected and raw, steeped in the specificity of its time while speaking to a larger cultural moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA truly human experience, \u003ci\u003eOff Season\u003c\/i\u003e displays Sturm’s masterful pacing and storytelling combined with conscious and confident growth as the celebrated cartoonist and educator moves away from historical fiction to deliver this long-form narrative set in contemporary times. Originally serialized on \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, this expanded edition turns timely vignettes into a timeless, deeply affecting account of one family and their off season.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316544414078,"sku":"NW9781770463318","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781770463318.jpg?v=1778719089","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/off-season","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}