{"product_id":"a-thousand-miles-of-road-joseph-kraus-9781998441297","title":"A Thousand Miles of Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Miles of Road \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of eight stories, including three novelettes, which take us through the lives of everyday people whose journey is upended by the existence of another.\u003cbr\u003eMelanie, who after enduring years of domestic brutality, escapes her ruthless husband the only definitive way possible, and from behind the counter of a jewelry store years later, she helps a man take the same dark path out of his own prison.\u003cbr\u003eMaggie has a disease growing inside her, but when even the doctors won't believe her, she is forced to search through the abuse of her childhood to find her own escape from what is killing her.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Mary comes to, a hundred miles from where she was the night before, in the apartment of the last person she'd ever want to wake up next to, she must find her way back to where she started, if that place even exists anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these and other stories, Joseph Kraus explores the duress of being alive through characters whose struggles feel like a thousand miles of hard road.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Kraus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1998441296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781998441297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Darkwinter Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Joseph Kraus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801093026047,"sku":"9781998441297","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-thousand-miles-of-road-joseph-kraus-9781998441297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}