{"product_id":"2940153148960","title":"Collected Short Stories volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003e Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for.\u003cbr\u003e A straight-laced ex-nun must decide what to do with a stolen Sony Trinitron TV. The arrival of a Russian Jew in the apartment complex where she lives resolves the matter of the ’hot’ TV while opening another can of existential worms.\u003cbr\u003e When Ronda Wickford, the assistant manager of Brandenburg’s ShopRite Supermarket, inadvertently hires a middle-age man with a PhD in philosophy to run the fresh produce department, weird things begin to happen. As events unfold, she learns a thing or two about Wittgenstein’s linguistic theories, common decency and how to fix a leaky faucet.\u003cbr\u003e Marie Augustin, an Haitian nurses aide, is blindsided when one of her elderly clients asks her to accompany him on a trip to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform in Tanglewood. Does the green-card immigrant, who witnessed first hand the endemic violence in her native country, follow agency protocol or bend rules to accommodate the absurd whim of a dying man?\u003cbr\u003eThese are just a few of the stories you will find in this collection of bittersweet short stories, where the characters are trying to manage their lives in a user-unfriendly universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barry Rachin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070283399408,"sku":"2940153148960","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153148960_p0.jpg?v=1764050334","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153148960","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}