{"product_id":"honored-guest-joy-williams-paperback","title":"Honored Guest -- Joy Williams, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eIn short stories \"so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race\" (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e), Joy Williams explores the various ways we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss, offering a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beautiful.... Unsettling.... [Contains] among the best American short stories.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human travail, from children confronting the death of a parent to parents instead burying their own young, and the various ways-comic, tragic, unnerving-we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. And all of her characters are richly, idiosyncratically alive, in circumstances at once supremely peculiar and strangely like our own.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Joy Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11\/8\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.94\" H x 5.3\" L x 0.61\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781400095520\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52946441503019,"sku":"9781400095520","price":23.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9781400095520.jpg?v=1774821036","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/honored-guest-joy-williams-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}