{"product_id":"the-persistence-of-instability-patrick-trotti-9798758970690","title":"The Persistence of Instability","description":"Set in the rundown and forgotten Main Street's of small-town America, \u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Instability \u003c\/i\u003eshowcases all that is wrong with the human psyche while offering glimpses of better times. In these fifteen stories, Patrick Trotti creates a world both frighteningly familiar and altogether otherworldly. Featuring ten never before published stories, this collection delves into the gritty realism of people living on the periphery of society.\u003cp\u003e\"There are writers who can take us to places of hardship, desperation, and hopelessness, but Patrick Trotti does more than take us there. Trotti transforms us so fully that the hardship, desperation, and hopelessness becomes our own. You are with the single mother at her AA meeting, trembling with the father who feels he has no options left but one. What Trotti does is magical. And he does it with the most broken materials he can find. \u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Instability\u003c\/i\u003e is a monument to those broken, and a witness to all that's possible within a determined heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003eSheldon Lee Compton, author of \u003ci\u003eSway \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDysphoria: an Appalachian Gothic \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Trotti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798758970690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d","brand":"Patrick Trotti","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49168665411839,"sku":"9798758970690","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-persistence-of-instability-patrick-trotti-9798758970690","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}