{"product_id":"ninety-nine-stories-of-god-isbn-9781947793170","title":"Ninety-Nine Stories of God","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year at \u003ci\u003eEsquire, Seattle Times, Minnesota Star Tribune, Huffington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom “quite possibly America’s best living writer of short stories” (NPR), \u003ci\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/i\u003e finds Joy Williams reeling between the sublime and the surreal, knocking down the barriers between the workaday and the divine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233435070693,"sku":"NP9781947793170","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781947793170.jpg?v=1767733763","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/ninety-nine-stories-of-god-isbn-9781947793170","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}