{"product_id":"ninety-nine-stories-of-god-9781941040355","title":"Ninety-Nine Stories of God","description":"\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams\u003c\/b\u003e has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In \u003ci\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/i\u003e, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the \u003ci\u003eBook of Common Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e as seen through a looking glass--a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams's characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for Him when He's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tin House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781941040355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2016 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2016 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Joy Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239248523445,"sku":"9781941040355","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_123250ed-3fe7-458b-8729-4ff6c46430ee.jpg?v=1770917425","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ninety-nine-stories-of-god-9781941040355","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}