Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Grange doesn't break away with rifles; it votes in a VFW hall and then goes for pie. The town paper's editor-our first-person witness-prints the headline and keeps the minutes as civic life gets handmade: a provisional cabinet with posted hours; a bedsheet flag; a tax jar; and a border sign whose dare and welcome are the same: YOU ARE NOW LEAVING YOU. The joke gets serious in the best way. People slow down. Forms appear. So do rules that sound like kindness. A pie-token currency (Slice, Two-Slice, Whole) turns transactions into conversations and makes meanness expensive. The county notices, then almost approves; the town replies by adding parentheses: nation (decorative), town (operative).Across one year-through anthem rehearsals that whistle instead of roar, a border renamed the Courtesy Point, and a Founders' Day that moves cones 'the width of a rulebook'-the book tracks how attention becomes policy and how policy becomes care. The reporter's voice is intimate and sly: he knows where the coffee is kept, why the bell should ring at dusk but not at ten, and how a ledger can log both taxes and embarrassments as proof they're becoming real.Secession Year is a love letter to small instruments that do big work: stamps that say RECEIVED, jars that collect faith, signs that make people better just by standing there. It's about neighboring as a practice, sovereignty as a shrug toward courage, and the deep comic dignity of trying in public. For readers of literary, heart-forward fiction with a civic pulse, this is a novel of borders that teach us how to belong. N� de r�f. du vendeur 9798349625534

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Secession Year (Paperback)

David Lagattuta

Edit� par David Lagattuta Jr., 2025

ISBN 13 : 9798349625534

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Grange doesn't break away with rifles; it votes in a VFW hall and then goes for pie. The town paper's editor-our first-person witness-prints the headline and keeps the minutes as civic life gets handmade: a provisional cabinet with posted hours; a bedsheet flag; a tax jar; and a border sign whose dare and welcome are the same: YOU ARE NOW LEAVING YOU. The joke gets serious in the best way. People slow down. Forms appear. So do rules that sound like kindness. A pie-token currency (Slice, Two-Slice, Whole) turns transactions into conversations and makes meanness expensive. The county notices, then almost approves; the town replies by adding parentheses: nation (decorative), town (operative).Across one year-through anthem rehearsals that whistle instead of roar, a border renamed the Courtesy Point, and a Founders' Day that moves cones "the width of a rulebook"-the book tracks how attention becomes policy and how policy becomes care. The reporter's voice is intimate and sly: he knows where the coffee is kept, why the bell should ring at dusk but not at ten, and how a ledger can log both taxes and embarrassments as proof they're becoming real.Secession Year is a love letter to small instruments that do big work: stamps that say RECEIVED, jars that collect faith, signs that make people better just by standing there. It's about neighboring as a practice, sovereignty as a shrug toward courage, and the deep comic dignity of trying in public. For readers of literary, heart-forward fiction with a civic pulse, this is a novel of borders that teach us how to belong. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N� de r�f. du vendeur 9798349625534

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