{"product_id":"the-thing-is-patsy-garlan-9780996373616","title":"The Thing Is: Selected Writings by Patsy Garlan","description":"An anxious writer braves the verdict of an austere IRS auditor. A corpse reveals our common humanity. A lonely old lady shares her bittersweet last hours. Fall leaves fall, dogs bounds, cats stroll through these lively selections from Patsy Garlan's 60-year writing career. In pithy poems, evocative stories, and telling essays, Garlan's light touch draws the reader of The Thing Is into a world all human beings share and create. Love, loss, birth, death, and the hereafter, are among her wide-ranging themes. She writes of coming to terms with the daunting computer, or succumbing to the charms of the ever-present cellphone, of reveling in the joys and challenges of the natural world.And on every page of The Thing Is, what shines through is the celebration of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patsy Garlan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0996373616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780996373616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Summerland Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.72d","brand":"Patsy Garlan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48799536185599,"sku":"9780996373616","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-thing-is-patsy-garlan-9780996373616","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}