{"product_id":"state-champ","title":"State Champ","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eState Champ\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHilary Plum\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781639735433\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBloomsbury Publishing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ferocious, hilarious, slippery, and wise\" (Leni Zumas)-the story of a woman risking her life and finding her own way to protest the end of abortion rights. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLucid, strange, and deeply metal, \u003ci\u003e State Champ\u003c\/i\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"State Champ | Hilary Plum | Hardcover | 9781639735433 | New | Fiction 1630606","offer_id":50701827965186,"sku":"1630606","price":43.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81dl5W3-WSL.jpg?v=1791616188","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/state-champ","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}