{"product_id":"david-lagattuta-secession-year-9798349625534","title":"Secession Year","description":"Grange doesn't break away with rifles; it votes in a VFW hall and then goes for pie. The town paper's editor-our first-person witness-prints the headline and keeps the minutes as civic life gets handmade: a provisional cabinet with posted hours; a bedsheet flag; a tax jar; and a border sign whose dare and welcome are the same: YOU ARE NOW LEAVING YOU. The joke gets serious in the best way. People slow down. Forms appear. So do rules that sound like kindness. A pie-token currency (Slice, Two-Slice, Whole) turns transactions into conversations and makes meanness expensive. The county notices, then almost approves; the town replies by adding parentheses: nation (decorative), town (operative).\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAcross one year-through anthem rehearsals that whistle instead of roar, a border renamed the Courtesy Point, and a Founders' Day that moves cones \"the width of a rulebook\"-the book tracks how attention becomes policy and how policy becomes care. The reporter's voice is intimate and sly: he knows where the coffee is kept, why the bell should ring at dusk but not at ten, and how a ledger can log both taxes and embarrassments as proof they're becoming real.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSecession Year is a love letter to small instruments that do big work: stamps that say RECEIVED, jars that collect faith, signs that make people better just by standing there. It's about neighboring as a practice, sovereignty as a shrug toward courage, and the deep comic dignity of trying in public. For readers of literary, heart-forward fiction with a civic pulse, this is a novel of borders that teach us how to belong.","brand":"David Lagattuta Jr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53766307119446,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/david-lagattuta-secession-year-9798349625534","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}