{"product_id":"9798885740159","title":"The Big Game Is Every Night","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold in the keen, honest voice of a young man growing up on the rural South Carolina coast, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Game Is Every Night \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003egrapples with masculinity, race, and family in contemporary blue-collar America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrady Hayes’s whole life revolves around football. When he breaks his leg starting a game against a rival high school, his life comes unglued. As he recovers, Grady grows bored and angry. He no longer relates to his mom, his cousin, or the girl he’s been talking to, and loses interest in catfishing and eating family suppers on the weekends. When Grady tries to return to the team, his spot has been filled, and there are rumors flying about why Coach made Grady a starting running-back in the first place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003eFrustrated and alone, Grady falls in with Hambone, a brooding older classmate, who takes him deep into the swamps to hunt raccoons and experiment with drugs. After an ugly confrontation with another player in the locker room, his relationship with Hambone turns dark and violent. Out of options, Grady’s mom calls in his estranged father to set him straight, and Grady realizes that his dad isn’t the man he remembers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003eIn his debut novel, Robert Maynor delivers a literary Lowcountry \u003ci\u003eFriday Night Lights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003ethat shines a harsh light on the ways American men are steeped in violence, and how hard it can be to shake loose the toxic norms that unchecked can keep us all so far apart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Maynor","offers":[{"title":"Hub City Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-09-01","offer_id":44230064832767,"sku":"9798885740159","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_efe6b816-0169-41cc-adca-70dead1f32cb.jpg?v=1692998076","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9798885740159","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}