{"product_id":"pythons-kiss-stories","title":"Python's Kiss: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e“[A] spectacular collection. . . . A staggering sense of empathy infuses the stories. With its range of voices and styles, this puts Erdrich’s powers on full display.” — \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (Starred Review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich’s magnificent story collection features a range of characters—a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone. A man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe—an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter—these stories offer an oppor­tunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America’s most important writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louise Erdrich","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55254177841443,"sku":"9780063375000","price":25.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780063375000.jpg?v=1781826592","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/pythons-kiss-stories","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}