{"product_id":"entire-sagebrush-city-series","title":"Entire Sagebrush City collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Sagebrush City collectionL Entire Sagebrush City series (10 ebooks)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories are true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e names have been changed. \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e details have been reworked. \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003epeople remain unmistakably themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years, a small human-services company in Sagebrush City tried to help people whose lives rarely fit inside \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e boxes provided for them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e clients were known as \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e Finks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e employees were \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e Henches.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeither term was official.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery little that mattered was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e Finks arrived with benefit notices, housing disasters, street debts, medical emergencies, family wars, improbable business plans and questions no professional training had anticipated. One wanted \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe \u003c\/span\u003eoffice to settle a forty-dollar dispute involving several different categories of money. Another robbed a restaurant of exactly one cherry\u003cbr\u003epie. Darryl asked six employees for \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e same extra bus pass and received six independently invented lies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKorey treated bus schedules as prophecy, nutrition as theology and public-access television as an opportunity nobody had been wise enough to deny him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTallulah moved through Sagebrush City with a street name, a government name, a talent for identifying \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e truth sideways and enough chaos to alter \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e working conditions of everyone nearby.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAround them were caseworkers, supervisors, landlords, judges, police officers, benefits departments, hospitals and government systems capable of transforming hunger into “Nutritional Access Optimization” without once mentioning food.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e work could be dangerous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt could be ridiculous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrequently, it was both before lunch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross ten books, these memoirs follow \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e Finks and Henches through \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e daily life of Sagebrush City, and follow \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e author through \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe \u003c\/span\u003epeople, places, music, family memories and losses that remained after \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e office closed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome stories are about \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e things people did to survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome are about \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e systems that made survival unnecessarily complicated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome are about a song, a funeral, an earthquake, an office snack bowl or a dead friend who still occupies space in \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e structure of \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eworld\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey are funny because \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e people were funny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey are painful because \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e people were real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd beneath \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e bad decisions, bureaucratic language, street logic and professional improvisation is \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e part no form ever managed to capture: \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e human part.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reality Services Office","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54152656814264,"sku":null,"price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/4459\/2824\/files\/All_10_books_1500x1200T_2.png?v=1790882451","url":"https:\/\/realityservicesoffice.com\/products\/entire-sagebrush-city-series","provider":"Reality Services Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}