{"id":1273,"date":"2025-12-19T12:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1273"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:09:55","slug":"born-lucky","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/product\/born-lucky","title":{"rendered":"Born Lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>available for pre-order<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>by Sarah McElwain<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<style>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#tab_container_1271 {\r\n\toverflow:hidden;\r\n\tdisplay:block;\r\n\twidth:100%;\r\n\tborder:0px solid #ddd;\r\n\tmargin-bottom:30px;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n#tab_container_1271 .tab-content{\r\n\tpadding:20px;\r\n\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n\tmargin-top: 0px;\r\n\tbackground-color:#fffbe5 !important;\r\n\tcolor: #000000 !important;\r\n\tfont-size:16px !important;\r\n\tfont-family: Open Sans !important;\r\n\t\r\n\t\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n\t}\r\n#tab_container_1271 .wpsm_nav-tabs {\r\n    border-bottom: 0px solid #ddd;\r\n}\r\n#tab_container_1271 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a, #tab_container_1271 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a:hover, #tab_container_1271 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a:focus {\r\n\tcolor: #000000 !important;\r\n\tcursor: default;\r\n\tbackground-color: #fffbe5 !important;\r\n\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n}\r\n\r\n#tab_container_1271 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li > a {\r\n    margin-right: 0px !important; 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Part love affair, part loss of innocence, part plight of a teenage girl immersed in survival, BORN LUCKY invites the reader into the tragic, naive truth about how popular culture devours teenage girl.\u201d<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">\u2014Susannah Marren, author of <em>Maribelle's Shadow<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">\u201cSarah McElwain brings the bad old East Village of the nineties totally alive again \u2013 sights, sounds, culture, and more than that, its very soul. Filtered through the eyes of a teenage girl growing up there, in a story that is wry and bittersweet.\u201d<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">\u2014Jonathan Stone, author of <em>Moving Day <\/em>and <em>The Prison Minyan<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1272\" src=\"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sarah-McElwain.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah McElwain\" width=\"193\" height=\"250\" \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><strong>Sarah McElwain<\/strong> teaches at Pulitzer-prize winning poet Philip Schultz\u2019s Writers Studio. For ten years she was a co-host of Writers Read NYC in Greenwich Village. Her essay \u201cFingertips Part Three with Thanks to Stevie Wonder\u201d about teaching yoga for the blind is in <em>The Art of Touch<\/em>, University of Georgia Press (2023). Her collection, <em>Saying Grace, Blessings for the Family Table, <\/em>and how-to guide <em>To the Happy Couple, Creating a Great Wedding Toast with Style <\/em>were published by Chronicle Books.<\/span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs_desc_1271_2\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<P><EM>Choose the rabbit\u2019s foot for luck, <BR>\r\nbut consider what happened to the rabbit. <\/EM><BR>\r\n~ proverb<\/P>\r\n\r\n<P>Evening K. Titlebaum believed that she was lucky. She had no evidence to support this. 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