{"product_id":"last-one-out-shut-off-the-lights","title":"Last One Out Shut Off The Lights","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A lightning bolt of a literary debut.\" ---Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Enchanting and so neatly planed they feel made by time, these stories mark the debut of a writer to watch.\" ---John Freeman,\u003ci\u003e Literary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLast One Out Shut Off the Lights\u003c\/i\u003e is an evocative portrait of the last-chance towns of southwest Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present threat of devastating hurricanes have eroded their inhabitants'' sense of home. These eleven piercing stories feature indelible characters struggling to find a foothold in a world that is forever washing out from under them, people who must reckon with their ambivalence about belonging to a place so continually in flux. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn a collection whose resonant echoes abound, we meet a reluctant teenage mother who stows her baby in a closet to steal a night out; a spiteful retiree who sabotages his neighbor in the wake of a hurricane; a Pentecostal singer in a children''s theater company who confronts the cultish leader of her troupe; a community of elderly Cajuns who conspire with a family of Sudanese immigrants to hide an escaped cow from the authorities; and a desperate young woman who tries to drag her brother to Mexico for surgery, determined to save his life and her own. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAs Lauren Groff did for the state of Florida in her recent collection \u003ci\u003eFlorida\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephanie Soileau demonstrates that Louisiana is as much a state of mind as it is a place on the map. A love letter to the Cajun language, life rhythms, and customs that still make the region unique, \u003ci\u003eLast One Out Shut Off the Lights\u003c\/i\u003e is also a powerful reminder of the treacherous escape routes that bedevil anyone longing to leave home, and the traps that remain for those who desire to return.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315614032254,"sku":"NW9780316423403","price":18.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780316423403.jpg?v=1778716689","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/last-one-out-shut-off-the-lights","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}