{"product_id":"the-secret-history-of-my-hometown","title":"The Secret History of My Hometown","description":"\u003cp\u003eCranbrook, British Columbia, is your quintessential Rocky Mountain town, but in \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History of My Hometown\u003c\/i\u003e, it is anything but typical. A young lovesick Ernest Hemingway hunts for missing elephants; Leon Trotsky decides that Cranbrook, not Mexico City, is the perfect place to hide away; and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a Chinese family’s grocery store’s survival rests in the hands of the legendary Monkey King. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Boden provides an array of original voices that add humour and personality to this imagined history, resulting in a collection of stories that demonstrate the powerfully deep and often unremembered history of smalltown life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Boden\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. His fiction and non-fiction have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the \u003ci\u003eJourney Prize\u003c\/i\u003e anthology, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIntima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDescant\u003c\/i\u003e. Boden is also the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eHidden Lives: Coming Out on Mental Illness\u003c\/i\u003e, a ground-breaking anthology of evocative personal essays. Originally from Cranbrook, BC, Boden now lives in Burnaby, in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History of My Hometown\u003c\/i\u003e is his first short story collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e244 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: February 16, 2027\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Andrew Boden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9781773104331\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$26","offer_id":50588702343407,"sku":"9781773104331","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9781773104331_FC.jpg?v=1787817672","url":"https:\/\/gooselane.com\/products\/the-secret-history-of-my-hometown","provider":"Goose Lane Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}