{"product_id":"2940016141022","title":"Nine Days: Uncertainty, Passion and Destiny in the Crucible of America's Culture War (A Novel)","description":"\"Nine Days is a robust and compelling first novel and would be a great shot if it were his third. It's a fabulous journey.\" - Philip F. Deaver, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and author of Silent Retreats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree people meet and decide they like each other. And the fun begins. An unlikely friendship of disparate travelers—a questioning evangelical Christian, a jaded skeptic, and a metaphysical lesbian—deepens into an amusing but gut-wrenching collision of beliefs and passions. Using humorous and edgy relationships and a disturbing moral conflict, Nine Days probes the angry divide in America…with a dish of ice cream and three spoons.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHelen Parker, wife of a bestselling author and charismatic megachurch pastor, has embarked on her first-ever separate vacation. Her safe and comfortable world is shaken by events at a resort on the Oregon coast, and even further when she meets two people her husband would describe as enemies of everything she believes in. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOne is Sam Anderson, a discouraged but good-hearted art historian who takes himself and his need for rational explanations far too seriously. The other is Greta Hunt, Sam’s beautiful lesbian friend and fellow professor who both tantalizes and irritates him with her teasing, histrionic personality and insistence that Sam is the reincarnation of a tragic historical figure. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThese flawed people argue, flirt and laugh with one another as they battle through their conflicting ideas, fears and hidden desires, and—with a violent dose of destiny—confront an angry and polarizing society. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEric Pflum’s thought-provoking debut novel exposes a core dilemma of our times: the inability of people on various sides of moral, theological and political issues to rise above their differences. Readers are thrust into the crucible of America's culture war, with no easy answers and no apparent way out.","brand":"Outskirts Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071204540656,"sku":"2940016141022","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016141022_p0.jpg?v=1763629688","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016141022","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}