{"product_id":"9780140148985","title":"The Kneeling Bus","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Perfect, dazzling stories that show you the world in a way you’ve never ever seen before.” –Carolyn See, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e These eight connected stories depict Carrie Willis’s coming-of-age as the daughter of a liberal minister in the Florida of the 1950s. Beverly Coyle’s tropical landscape is quietly rural, relentlessly Methodist –lovely, lovely, and self-doubting. Her writing is as intimate as a memoir, and her stories take odd, voyeuristic turns: we meet Carrie’s grandmother, a Seventh-day Adventist convert, much to the consternation of her family; a boy who feeds his pet leeches from blood-filled rubber gloves; the daughter of wealthy orchid growers who is killed by a truck on a rainy highway; and Carrie’s great-aunt Dove, who falls for a con man who preaches the miracle of Direct Dialing. Actually arranging a promised call to Dr. Norman Vincent Peale may be the one honest thing he does. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e By turns hilarious, poignant, and heart-wrenching, \u003ci\u003eThe Kneeling Bus\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the small shames and deep mortifications of a narrator who once dreamed herself into a mission field of the Congo—before she lost her nerve. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Beverly Coyle employs so light a touch in this warm and wise novel that it completely charms us long before we feel how much it has taught us.”—\u003ci\u003eSt. Petersburg Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022561788144,"sku":"9780140148985","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140148985_p0.jpg?v=1763642523","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140148985","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}