{"product_id":"im-hungry","title":"I'm Hungry","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a novel about the collisions of youth—with want, with art, with rage—as experienced by a young Chippewa writer in politically fraught 1970s America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Where do we find a definition? Where do we find what a poet is?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFargo, 1971. Erdrich’s narrator spends her days sneaking pocketsful of lasagna home from waitressing, missing the author friends who have floated out of town again, and wondering half-seriously if the poetry of local third graders is outdoing her own. In search of more life, more inspiration, and—always—enough food to get through the next day, she embarks on a series of jobs, affairs, and travels that illuminate the wild eccentricities of the American national character as much as they do the injustices—and resistances—boiling around her in North Dakota.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI’m Hungry\u003c\/em\u003e explores shocking violence, unearthly beauty, and voracious appetites of all kinds, from sexual hunger to the need for a life transfigured by poetry. It answers the question of “what a poet is” with an indelible portrait of a young woman in a fractured community who finds her voice even as she encounters lovers, hustlers, and specters whose own hungers threaten to pull her under.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bold, gorgeously textured, and unforgettable moral fable, this compelling novel will be revelatory to her legions of fans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louise Erdrich","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49661139452131,"sku":"9780063417182","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/7390\/6371\/files\/Im-Hungry.jpg?v=1788379377","url":"https:\/\/birchbarkbooks.com\/products\/im-hungry","provider":"Birchbark Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}