{"id":41051,"date":"2017-08-07T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T22:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=41051"},"modified":"2017-08-07T16:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T22:18:32","slug":"gin-phillips-with-fierce-kingdom-at-off-square-books-august-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/gin-phillips-with-fierce-kingdom-at-off-square-books-august-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Gin Phillips with Fierce Kingdom at Off-Square Books August 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">An electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she\u2019ll go to to protect him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy, and the day has been close to perfect. But what Joan sees as she hustles her son toward the exit gate minutes before closing time sends her sprinting back into the zoo, her child in her arms. And for the next three hours\u2014the entire scope of the novel\u2014she keeps on running.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Suddenly, mother and son are as trapped as the animals. Joan\u2019s intimate knowledge of this place that filled early motherhood with happy diversions\u2014the hidden pathways and under-renovation exhibits, the best spots on the carousel and overstocked snack machines\u2014is all that keeps them a step ahead of danger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A masterful thrill ride and an exploration of motherhood itself\u2014from its tender moments of grace to its savage power\u2014<em>Fierce Kingdom<\/em> asks where the boundary is between our animal instinct to survive and our human duty to protect one another. For whom should a mother risk her life?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Gin Phillips<\/strong> will be at <strong>Off Square Books<\/strong> August 10, 2017 at 5 pm.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":41053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[10767,10766,5,642,4,602,3,753],"class_list":["post-41051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-fierce-kingdom","tag-gin-phillips","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-oxford","tag-square-books","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-07-Gin-Phillips.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}