{"product_id":"2940169606904","title":"Ninety-Nine Stories of God","description":"\u003cp\u003ePulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In \u003ci\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/i\u003e, she takes on one of mankind¿s most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It¿s the \u003ci\u003eBook of Common Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e as seen through a looking glass¿a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams¿ characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for him when he¿s standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he¿s in line to get a shingles vaccination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, \u003ci\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098022592752,"sku":"2940169606904","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169606904_p0.jpg?v=1769897388","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169606904","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}