{"product_id":"survival-skills-jean-ryan-9781618220219","title":"Survival Skills: Stories","description":"Jean Ryan's debut collection tells stories of nature and of human nature. The characters who inhabit Jean Ryan's graceful, imaginative collection of stories are survivors of accidents and acts of nature, of injuries both physical and emotional. Ryan writes of beauty and aging, of love won and lost-with characters enveloped in the mysteries of the natural world and the animal kingdom. In \"Greyhound,\" a woman brings home a rescued dog for her troubled partner in hopes that they might heal one another-while the dog in \"What Gretel Knows\" is the keeper of her owner's deepest secrets. In \"Migration,\" a recently divorced woman retreats to a lakefront cabin where she is befriended by a mysterious Canada goose just as autumn begins to turn to winter. As a tornado ravages three towns in \"The Spider in the Sink,\" a storm chaser's wife spares the life of a spider as she anxiously waits for her husband to return. And in \"A Sea Change,\" a relationship falls victim to a woman's obsession with the world below the waves. The world is at once a beautiful and perilous place, Jean Ryan's stories tell us, and our lives are defined by the shelters we build.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1618220217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781618220219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ashland Creek Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/22\/2013","brand":"Jean Ryan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45180297314559,"sku":"9781618220219","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c590234-4fdb-4b77-bb27-5411ba8eb056.jpg?v=1712897822","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/survival-skills-jean-ryan-9781618220219","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}