Failure to Thrive - Sink, Susan
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Near Grand Forks, North Dakota, a family is struggling. Middle-aged Gary has a job delivering burial vaults and doing graveside set-ups in a large rural territory. He takes his aging dad with him. But there's something wrong with his daughter CeCe's baby. She isn't growing. Her head's too small. CeCe's on her own with five-year-old Tony and baby Lily while her husband Corey works in the Bakken oil fields, trying to pay off family debts. Failure to Thrive is a portrait of the Upper Midwest in 2008, the Financial Crisis and one family's fall from the hard-won middle class. As Gary tries to hold…mehr

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Near Grand Forks, North Dakota, a family is struggling. Middle-aged Gary has a job delivering burial vaults and doing graveside set-ups in a large rural territory. He takes his aging dad with him. But there's something wrong with his daughter CeCe's baby. She isn't growing. Her head's too small. CeCe's on her own with five-year-old Tony and baby Lily while her husband Corey works in the Bakken oil fields, trying to pay off family debts. Failure to Thrive is a portrait of the Upper Midwest in 2008, the Financial Crisis and one family's fall from the hard-won middle class. As Gary tries to hold his family together, navigating CeCe's increasing troubles, he tries to center them on his small plot of land on the Red River, the only land the family has been able to acquire. There he has his chickens and pygmy goats and a shelterbelt of trees to shield him from beet fields and child protective services outside. From his window, he watches the Red River rise and fall each year.
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Susan Sink is a poet and writer living on 80 acres in Central Minnesota. She has an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, "The Way of All the Earth" and "H is for Harry" (Northstar Press), and a book of 100-word stories about nuns, "Habits." She is also the author of a nonfiction work, "The Art of The Saint John's Bible." Her short fiction and poetry has appeared in many national literary magazines. Her books are available for purchase at her website, susansinkblog.com. She also posts poems and short essays at medium.com @susansink. This book was printed and produced by lulu.com. "Officer Down" is her first novel.