{"product_id":"i-was-a-revolutionary-stories","title":"I Was a Revolutionary: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA richly textured, diverse collection of stories that illuminate the heartland and America itself, exploring questions of history, race, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in place, spanning the Civil War to the present day, the stories in \u003cem\u003eI Was a Revolutionary\u003c\/em\u003e capture the roil of history through the eyes of an unforgettable cast of characters: the visionaries and dreamers, radical farmers and socialist journalists, quack doctors and protestors who haunt the past and present landscape of the state of Kansas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these stories—which have appeared in \u003cem\u003eZoetrope All-Story, The Best New American Voices, FiveChapters, Story, American Short Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/em\u003e—the award-winning writer Andrew Malan Milward crafts an epic mosaic of the American experience, tracing how we live amid the inconvenient ghosts of history. “The Burning of Lawrence” vibrates with the raw terror of a town pillaged by pro-Confederate raiders. “O Death” recalls the desperately hard journey of the Exodusters—African-American migrants who came to Kansas to escape oppression in the South. And, in the collection’s haunting title piece, a professor of Kansas history surveys his decades-long slide from radicalism to complacency, a shift that parallels the landscape around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing his own home state as a prism through which to view both a nation’s history and our own universal battles as individuals, Milward has created one of the freshest and most complex story collections in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew Malan Milward","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":55251342524707,"sku":"9780062377326","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55251342557475,"sku":"9780062377319","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780062377319.jpg?v=1781803007","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/i-was-a-revolutionary-stories","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}