{"product_id":"joe-jones-9781593760038","title":"Joe Jones","description":"\"If love is details, so is storytelling, and Anne Lamott excels at it. Her way with analogy, metaphor, and evocative detail is subtle; her ability to shift from the specific to the general to the specific again, superb.\"--The Nation \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoe Jones is Anne Lamott's raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie's Café, \"a restaurant from another era, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck or Saroyan.\" Jessie, \"thin, stooped and gorgeous at seventy-nine,\" inherited the café years before and it has become home to a remarkable family of characters: Louise, the cook and vortex, \"sexy and sweet, somewhere on the cusp between curvaceous and fat\"; Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessie's gay grandson, (\"I thought he just had good posture,\" said Jessie); Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday. Lamott's rich and timeless themes are also here: love and loyalty, loss and recovery, staying on and staying together, the power of humor to heal and to bind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593760038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.16h x 5.50w x 0.86d","brand":"Anne Lamott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42917292572853,"sku":"9781593760038","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d5644d28-97d0-4330-9fbf-ca1d4f00e215.jpg?v=1687281721","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/joe-jones-9781593760038","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}