{"id":15886,"date":"2025-12-17T15:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosterlibraries.org\/?p=15886"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:11:50","slug":"i-cheerfully-refuse-by-leif-enger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/staff-recs\/i-cheerfully-refuse-by-leif-enger","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Cheerfully Refuse&#8221; by Leif Enger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audrey recommends:<\/strong><em> I Cheerfully Refuse<\/em> by Leif Enger <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Science fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reading level:<\/strong> Adult <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary<\/strong>: A futuristic folk tale about a man on a mythological quest across Lake Superior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audrey says:<\/strong> I loved reading Rainy&#8217;s enthusiastic first-person narration and its unique use of language, and meeting all the charming characters that inhabit this not-too-distant America. Enger&#8217;s writing fully inhabits a world that is familiar and yet unfamiliar, and maintains a folkloric quality that resembles an oral tradition tale like The Odyssey or Beowulf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>This title is available at Foster Public Library. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/815aHQWtQ1L._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15887\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A futuristic folk tale about a man on a mythological quest across Lake Superior. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_piecal_is_recurring":false,"_piecal_recurring_interval":1,"_piecal_recurring_frequency":"","_piecal_recurring_exact_position":false,"_piecal_recurring_end":"","_piecal_color":"","_piecal_text_color":"","_piecal_global_color_master":false,"_piecal_rsets":"[]","_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,16,41],"class_list":["post-15886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-recs","tag-adult","tag-audrey-recs","tag-sci-fi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}