{"product_id":"state-champ-9781639735433b","title":"State Champ","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e“Ferocious, hilarious, slippery, and wise” (Leni Zumas)—a protest novel for our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA high-school state champion runner turned college dropout, Angela is working as a receptionist at an abortion clinic when a “heartbeat law” criminalizes most abortions statewide. In the ensuing upheaval, her boss is arrested for providing illegal procedures and the clinic is shut down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngela has never been either an activist or a model employee. But she gets why her boss didn't follow the rules. She decides to go on a hunger strike in the boarded-up clinic, to protest her boss's arrest and everything that's been lost. She'll draw on her skillset: the masochistic discipline of a runner, a history of self-destructive behavior, and a willingness to sleep on exam room tables (whose hygienic paper she uses as her diary).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngela's protest is solitary, enraged, and a little messy, but it mobilizes a group of people around her-an ex who's a local journalist looking for a good story, the everyday people the clinic once served, and most especially a formidable anti-abortion activist named Janine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucid, strange, and deeply metal, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eState Champ\u003c\/span\u003e cuts through the political rhetoric to explore the relationship between bodily autonomy and real freedom. Angela's story is about what abortion access means day-to-day and how much we are-in ways that can transform us-responsible for one another.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42872641519696,"sku":"9781639735433B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781639735433-l.jpg?v=1785873858","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/state-champ-9781639735433b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}