{"title":"Fletcher Michael","description":"\u003cp\u003eFletcher Michael is a writer from Rhode Island. He holds a BA from Salve Regina University and an MA in English Literature from Catholic University of America. Prior to attending graduate school, Fletcher taught English in Taiwan and worked at an art gallery and television studio in Manhattan. His work has been published in Literary Imagination, Mobius Magazine, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, Points in Case, Slackjaw, Jane Austen’s Wastebasket, and The Lindenwood Review. His debut novel, Vulture, was published in 2022. The fruits of his writing efforts can be found here: byfletch.wordpress.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFletcher Michael’s books are published by Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"glass-bottle-season","title":"Glass Bottle Season","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSummertime on Rhode Island’s luxurious Aquidneck Island.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA middle-class Cuban American—freshly graduated from college—reckons with his fragile standing among the wealthy community in which he was raised, from which he might be cast out before the summer ends.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRaymond Wilson-Domingo has never felt entirely comfortable among the elitist crowd of Newport’s old-money aristocracy—partly because he's Cuban, partly because of his modest upbringing in the city’s undesirable Fifth Ward neighborhood. 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Ray would do anything to cement his place among New England’s most elite social circles, but will it ever be enough?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1684429412\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781684429417\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Fletcher Michael","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43522583068888,"sku":"9781684429424","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938287976664,"sku":"9781684429417","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9781684429417_FChigh_mockup_v2_1669132898_d099fd7c-a400-45fc-9e0b-753b4eb2c909.jpg?v=1791063268"},{"product_id":"sidewalk-dance","title":"Sidewalk Dance","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGlass Bottle Season\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomes a gritty new coming-of-age novel that examines what happens when one man’s desperate journey to become a New York Writer leaves him more “tortured” than “artist.”  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSidewalk Dance\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of the artist as a deluded self-saboteur. 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