{"product_id":"let-me-think-stories-9781644450499","title":"Let Me Think: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection of short fiction by the author of the cult classic \u003ci\u003ePieces for the Left Hand \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet Me Think\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulous selection of short stories by one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American absurd. Through J. Robert Lennon's mordant yet sympathetic eye, the quotidian realities of marriage, family, and work are rendered powerfully strange in this rich and innovative collection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese stories, most no more than a few pages, are at once experimental and compulsively readable, the work of an expert craftsman who can sketch whole lives in a mere handful of lines, or reveal, over pages, the boundless complexity of a passing thought. Here you'll find a heist gone wrong, a case of mistaken identity, a hostile encounter with a neighborhood eccentric, a glass eye, a talking owl, and a six-fingered hand. Whatever the subject, Lennon disarms the reader with humor before pivoting to pathos, pain, and disappointment--most notably in an extraordinary sequence of darting, painfully funny fictions about a disintegrating marriage that captures the myriad ways intimacy can fail us, and the ways that we can fail it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike Lennon's earlier story collection \u003ci\u003ePieces for the Left Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLet Me Think\u003c\/i\u003e holds a mirror up to our long-held grudges and secret desires, our petty resentments and moments of redeeming grace, and confirms him as a virtuoso of the form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256","brand":"J. Robert Lennon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39398252642485,"sku":"9781644450499","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e053662f-4905-419c-95f2-41e6a8c367ab.jpg?v=1615300027","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/let-me-think-stories-9781644450499","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}