{"product_id":"elberfeld-mark-sour-cherries-at-buc-ee-s-9798891329119","title":"Sour Cherries at Buc-ee's","description":"What do sour cherries, a subway reprimand in Moscow, and an imaginary alligator named Fluffy have in common? In Sour Cherries at Buc-ee's, Mark Elberfeld invites readers on a deeply personal-and often unexpectedly funny-journey through memory, movement, and meaning.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom a seventh-grade retreat on the Mattaponi River to the surreal vastness of a Buc-ee's gas station, Elberfeld traces the threads of identity, place, and connection. Whether he's reflecting on summer camp, road trips in an electric car, the quiet radicalism of hospitality, or a friend's hauntingly beautiful art show, his essays linger in that liminal space between the ordinary and the profound.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWith humor, honesty, and a teacher's instinct for drawing meaning from mess, Elberfeld explores what it means to leave, to return, to remember, and to reframe. For anyone who's ever found themselves crying in a parking lot, questioning the shape of freedom, or chasing summer like a white whale-this book might just be the life ring you didn't know you needed.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"In Mark Elberfeld's Sour Cherries, we meet something to relish: an unrelenting mind on the page. Here, we travel to summer camp, to Switzerland, to Vermont, and that dreaded region: chemistry class. Humorous and meditative, Sour Cherries ponders that age-old quandary: Why must we travel away to really understand who we are, at home, in ourselves? Building in tension, with wide-ranging material from Frankenstein and Walt Whitman to Shawna Miller and getting a rental car, Sour Cherries is a delight that explores all the complexities of human emotion.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\n--Taylor Brorby, author of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"[C]aught as we all are in this politically divisive moment, as distrust and cynicism hold sway, Elberfeld's sensibilities could not be more timely or necessary. The writer's curiosity and good-will, whether among friends or strangers, offer the rare alternative of civility across difference.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\n--Laurie Clark","brand":"Atmosphere Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53809831379286,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/elberfeld-mark-sour-cherries-at-buc-ee-s-9798891329119","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}