{"product_id":"2940150354142","title":"Faulkner \u0026 Friends","description":"Annie Ajami's book store, Faulkner \u0026amp; Friends provides not just a book store but a salon and haven for writers, and a beacon of culture in a run-down neighborhood. But just when the fledgling store seems destined to become financially viable, offering a lifeline to a better future for the destitute characters who have become her adopted family, the shop is plunged into a world of violence and Annie's dream for a literary life falls to ruin, like scattered pages from a broken bookbinding. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If I didn't know better, I'd swear there's something in the water coming down the river that blooms good writers in New Orleans like magnolia blossoms: Faulkner, Rice, Percy, Toole, etc. And now here's the newest one to squeeze the heart to offer up its secrets. Faulkner \u0026amp; Friends is a wonderful read; that it's set in New Orleans is lagniappe.\" -- William Greenway, Ph.D., Author of \u003ci\u003eEverywhere at Once\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFishing at the End of the World.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The need to have sympathy for those whom society has left behind, even at personal sacrifice, is key to the novel.\" --Ruth Latta, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Songcatcher and Me\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Underground Voices","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068323873008,"sku":"2940150354142","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150354142_p0.jpg?v=1763742891","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150354142","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}