{"product_id":"the-usual-mistakes-and-other-erin-flanagan-9780803271746","title":"The Usual Mistakes, and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough the characters in these stories may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, their stories are anything but the usual fare. Populated by pretenders, ex-cons, and wannabes who bend the rules, break the law, and risk everything to salvage their own hearts, the twelve stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Usual Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e conduct readers into a world where betrayal is just a beginning. Deception, infidelity, even death--where a person goes from there is the mainspring of Erin Flanagan's fiction, and in the turns her characters take, we find rare insights: that we are often wedded to one another because of, not in spite of, our flaws and that this paradoxical connection may in fact be cause for hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn impostor medical assistant and an ex-neo-Nazi, covered head to toe in swastika tattoos; a seemingly oafish but suddenly sympathetic husband and a boorish mother-in-law in need of comforting; a young boy who finds adulthood by learning to forgive--the characters in these stories are by turns inappropriate, outlandish, selfish, and kind and are complicated as only real people are. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin Flanagan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803271743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803271746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Erin Flanagan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988266909951,"sku":"9780803271746","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67c23803-629f-4647-83ec-0226f276b52c.jpg?v=1683293565","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-usual-mistakes-and-other-erin-flanagan-9780803271746","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}