{"product_id":"praying-drunk-stories-questions-9781936747634","title":"Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions","description":"\u003cp\u003eI finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide and crying like a baby.--Daniel Handler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe characters in \u003ci\u003ePraying Drunk\u003c\/i\u003e speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken glass; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails to fend off his bully. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and spiritually alive throughout the untamable turbulence of their worlds. In a masterful blend of fiction, autobiography, and surrealism, Kyle Minor shows us that the space between fearlessness and terror is often very small. Long before \u003ci\u003ePraying Drunk\u003c\/i\u003e reaches its plaintive, pitch-perfect end, Minor establishes himself again and again as one of the most talented younger writers in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936747634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Independent Publisher Book Awards - Bronze Medal Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/27\/2014 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kyle Minor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574100369589,"sku":"9781936747634","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7eefead5-c7c9-4c42-b852-ccfffb6f48b0.jpg?v=1643689403","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/praying-drunk-stories-questions-9781936747634","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}