{"product_id":"best-worst-american-juan-martinez-9781618731241","title":"Best Worst American: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than expected. There's humor, but it's going to hurt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"On Paradise,\" a petshop manager flies with his cat to Las Vegas to meet his long-lost mother and grandmother, only to find that the women look exactly like they did forty years before. In \"The Spooky Japanese Girl is There For You,\" the spooky Japanese girl (a ghost) is there for you, then she is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese refreshing and invigorating stories of displacement, exile, and identity, of men who find themselves confused by the presence or absence of extraordinary women, jump up, demand to be read, and send the reader back to the earth changed: reminded from these short stories how big the world is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juan Martinez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1618731246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781618731241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Small Beer Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2016","brand":"Juan Martinez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984657383679,"sku":"9781618731241","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60645a18-3963-43d2-8ebb-8b84516183b2.jpg?v=1683273506","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/best-worst-american-juan-martinez-9781618731241","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}