{"product_id":"superior-stories","title":"Superior Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Superior Stories,\" winner of the 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest in fiction, is a series of six short stories which explore the lives of people who live in the northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Keweenaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bryan Gruley (award-winning author of Bitterfrost, Starvation Lake, and other novels) notes, \"In her linked story collection, 'Superior Stories, ' Helen Raica-Klotz takes readers deep into the physical and emotional lives of regular people trying and often failing to do the right thing--for themselves, their families, their friends, and their northern Michigan worlds. Raica-Klotz conjures evocative settings and richly layered up-north characters with language that is at once concrete and elegiac, painting a hard yet enchanting landscape of tarpaper roofs, black ice, and hoar frost-a travelogue of human hope and grief, aspiration and desperation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helen Raica-Klotz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46799690760428,"sku":"9781950744268","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781950744268.jpg?v=1757245546","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/superior-stories","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}