{"product_id":"small-cruelties-joanna-acevedo-9798991492843","title":"Small Cruelties: Stories from acclaimed author Joanna Acevedo","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's death by a thousand cuts-ten new stories from acclaimed writer Joanna Acevedo are collected in \u003cem\u003eSmall Cruelties\u003c\/em\u003e, showing us uncertain futures, rushed intimacies, broken promises, fading youth, and insurmountable losses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Acevedo's debut story collection, \u003cem\u003eUnsaid Things, \u003c\/em\u003ethe narrators recognized their flaws and their reluctance to stand up for what they believed in. With \u003cem\u003eSmall Cruelties, \u003c\/em\u003eAcevedo introduces us to young people around the country who aren't thinking about the American Dream-tax cuts, cheap mortgages, or access to healthcare. These kinds of stressors are a luxury for the truly desperate. The characters in \u003cem\u003eSmall Cruelties \u003c\/em\u003eare looking for a more basic solution. At the core is their drive to see the world and what it has to offer, for connection, community, compassion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this search there are moments of surreal and tender lightness-a watermelon buckled into the passenger seat of a car, vigilante couples therapy built as an experiment by trespassing graduate students using blackout curtains and crystal meth. Maybe these characters have commitment issues, and maybe they have boundary issues, and maybe they're pulling everyone into the storm they inevitably create. But throughout, Acevedo refuses to sensationalize, to titillate, to reduce these variations of the human experience to cliché. Instead, readers will find far more to relate to than to judge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanna Acevedo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798991492843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Flexible Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Joanna Acevedo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47072283328767,"sku":"9798991492843","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5fd65e73-a6ef-41c5-8ccf-8f63edcd6b4a.jpg?v=1753416342","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/small-cruelties-joanna-acevedo-9798991492843","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}