{"product_id":"american-estrangement-stories-9781324050483","title":"American Estrangement: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eSaid Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain. His new collection of stories--some of which have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e--is set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to readers of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles--a son's fractured relationship with his father, the death of a mother, the loss of a job, drug addiction--even as they are battered by larger, often invisible, economic, political, and racial forces of American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearing, intimate, often slyly funny, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Estrangement\u003c\/em\u003e is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadeh's reputation as one of the essential twenty-first-century American writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324050483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192","brand":"Sa\u0026#239;d Sayrafiezadeh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42547792806069,"sku":"9781324050483","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_90cd743a-075d-42f2-b658-85546c55abbe.jpg?v=1670337276","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/american-estrangement-stories-9781324050483","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}