{"id":289696,"date":"2012-03-22T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/03\/22\/children-in-reindeer-woods-giveaway\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:11:42","slug":"children-in-reindeer-woods-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/03\/22\/children-in-reindeer-woods-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Children in Reindeer Woods Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all you GoodReads users, we&#8217;re giving away 10 copies of Kristin Omarsdottir&#8217;s <em>Children in Reindeer Woods<\/em> though their special program. To enter, simply click on the button below before March 31st. <\/p>\n<p>In terms of this book, it&#8217;s a very intriguing novel that&#8217;s kind of like a war book that&#8217;s not about a war. It opens in shocking fashion with a group of paratroopers descending on an idyllic farmhouse and killing everyone in site. Then one paratrooper turns on the others, and by page three, the only people remaining are Rafael&#8212;a soldier who wants to start life over as a farmer&#8212;and the eleven-year-old Billie, a precious and strange child who had been living at the Children in Reindeer Woods foster home. <\/p>\n<p>As the book progresses, it becomes less about war&#8212;the when and where of this war are displaced and made intentionally irrational, transforming this into a more mythic, or universal sort of story&#8212;and more about the relationship between these two characters who are building an oasis amid a culture of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the <span class=\"caps\">MLA<\/span> conference, I gave a copy of this to a friend who texted me the next day to say that it gave her &#8220;the most fucked up dreams ever . . . in a good way.&#8221; It really is that strange and powerful and vivid. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also going to be reviewed in the <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em> next month. So get your copy now, either by entering below, or simply buying it through <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/34-#children\">our website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"goodreadsGiveawayWidget22547\"><!-- Show static html as a placeholder in case js is not enabled --><\/p>\n<div class=\"goodreadsGiveawayWidget\" style=\"max-width: 350px; margin: 10px auto; padding: 10px 15px; border: 2px solid #EBE8D5; border-radius: 10px;\">\n<style>\n    .goodreadsGiveawayWidget { color: #555; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; font-size: 14px;\n      font-style: normal; background: white; }\n    .goodreadsGiveawayWidget img { padding: 0 !important; margin: 0 !important; }\n    .goodreadsGiveawayWidget a { padding: 0 !important; margin: 0; color: #660; text-decoration: none; }\n    .goodreadsGiveawayWidget a:visted { color: #660; text-decoration: none; }\n    .goodreadsGiveawayWidget a:hover { color: #660; text-decoration: underline !important; }\n    .goodreadsGiveawayWidget p { margin: 0 0 .5em !important; padding: 0; }\n    .goodreadsGiveawayWidgetEnterLink { display: block; width: 150px; margin: 10px auto 0 !important; padding: 0px 5px !important; \n      text-align: center; line-height: 1.8em; color: #222; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\n      border: 1px solid #6A6454; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; font-family:arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;\n      background-image:url(http:\/\/goodreads.com\/images\/layout\/gr_button4.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-color:#BBB596;\n      outline: 0; white-space: nowrap;\n    }\n    .goodreadsGiveawayWidgetEnterLink:hover { background-image:url(http:\/\/goodreads.com\/images\/layout\/gr_button4_hover.gif);\n      color: black; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;\n    }\n  <\/style>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 0 0 10px !important; padding: 0 !important; font-style: italic; font-size: 20px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; text-align: center; color: #555;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\" target=\"_new\">Goodreads<\/a> Book Giveaway<br \/>\n  <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left;\">\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13002003\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Children in Reindeer Woods by Kristin Omarsdottir\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1324215478l\/13002003.jpg\" title=\"Children in Reindeer Woods by Kristin Omarsdottir\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0 0 0 110px !important; padding: 0 0 0 0 !important;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;\">\n<p>          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13002003\">Children in Reindeer Woods<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;\">\n<p>          by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5311755\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">Kristin Omarsdottir<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h4>\n<div class=\"giveaway_details\">\n<p>\n            Giveaway ends March 31, 2012.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/giveaway\/show\/22547\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">giveaway details<\/a><br \/>\n            at Goodreads.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/giveaway\/enter_choose_address\/22547\" class=\"goodreadsGiveawayWidgetEnterLink\">Enter to win<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/giveaway\/widget\/22547\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all you GoodReads users, we&#8217;re giving away 10 copies of Kristin Omarsdottir&#8217;s Children in Reindeer Woods though their special program. 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