{"product_id":"revelation-at-the-food-bank-merrill-joan-gerber-9781952386701","title":"Revelation at the Food Bank","description":"These powerful essays share critical moments of a writer's life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching for a harpsichord in the mountains of Florence, Italy; the tale of a beloved cousin whose plane is shot down by Japanese Zeros; and a precious friendship between two women writers derailed by the poisons of religion and politics. In the titular essay (included in \u003cem\u003eBest American Essays 2023\u003c\/em\u003e) a food bank, assuaging the pandemic's terrors with gifts of food and prayers, becomes a portal for intimate confidences entrusted to us by a voice of unspoiled authenticity and perennial vigor.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Merrill Joan Gerber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952386705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952386701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sagging Meniscus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/30\/2023","brand":"Merrill Joan Gerber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45479088750847,"sku":"9781952386701","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f0c3ce68-f3a7-4ff6-9148-6c60904a8522.jpg?v=1715936247","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revelation-at-the-food-bank-merrill-joan-gerber-9781952386701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}