{"product_id":"bullet-collection-9781555972998","title":"Bullet Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePassionate, lyrical, and deeply humane, this tale of two sisters caught in a war without end moves effortlessly through space and time . . . an astonishing first novel. --Andrea Barrett\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarianna watches her older sister Alaine collect the detritus of war from around Beirut--bullets, shrapnel, grenades, a gas mask. These objects, some taken from dead bodies, catalogue Alaine's retreat into a dangerous depression. As the family struggles to endure the daily violence of the Middle East conflict, it is Marianna who becomes her older sister's keeper, watching for any signal that might trigger one of Alaine's frequent, grim excavations. But once the family escapes to America, Alaine's newfound contentment is as alien to Marianna as her madness once was. As Marianna longs for her beloved, war-torn home, she struggles to understand that now she is the difficult sister. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn lyrical, dreamlike prose, \u003ci\u003eThe Bullet Collection\u003c\/i\u003e by Patricia Sarrafian Ward mines both the stunning, exotic landscape of Beirut and the pure, defiant landscape of a child's heart, and shows how war leaves its indelible scars on both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555972998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Patricia Sarrafian Ward","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43124452425909,"sku":"9781555972998","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_469a74cb-b3a8-4a06-b414-e8b96323fee4.jpg?v=1694552481","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bullet-collection-9781555972998","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}