{"product_id":"november-storm-robert-oldshue-9781609384517","title":"November Storm","description":"In each of the stories in Robert Oldshue's debut collection, the characters want to be decent but find that hard to define. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the first story, an elderly couple is told that delivery of their Thanksgiving dinner has been canceled due to an impending blizzard. Unwilling to have guests but nothing to serve them, they make a run to the grocery, hoping to get there and back before the snow, but crash their car into the last of their neighbors. In \"The Receiving Line,\" a male prostitute tricks a closeted suburban schoolteacher only to learn that the trick is on him. In \"The Woman On The Road,\" a twelve-year-old girl negotiates the competing demands of her faith and her family as she is bat mitzvahed in the feminist ferment of the 1980s. The lessons she learns are the lessons learned by a ten-year-old boy in \"Fergus B. Fergus,\" after which, in \"Summer Friend,\" two women and one man renegotiate their sixty-year intimacy when sadly, but inevitably, one of them gets ill. \"The Home Of The Holy Assumption\" offers a benediction. A quadriplegic goes missing at a nursing home. Was she assumed? In the process of finding out, all are reminded that caring for others, however imperfectly--even laughably--is the only shot at assumption we have. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In upstate New York, a November storm is one that comes early in the season. If it catches people off-guard, it can change them in the ways Oldshue's characters are changed by different but equally surprising storms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Oldshue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609384512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609384517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2016 pg. 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2016 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/29\/2016","brand":"Robert Oldshue","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094166622463,"sku":"9781609384517","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1de8affd-7a8d-4688-b392-5f74d7a8f222.jpg?v=1724843876","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/november-storm-robert-oldshue-9781609384517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}