{"product_id":"9780679775492","title":"Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Gracefully written and moving ... \u003cb\u003eThings Seen and Unseen\u003c\/b\u003e starts with Nora Gallagher entering the labyrinth of her life ... and ultimately it leads to the center of her being.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt started with an occasional Sunday, a \"tourist's\" visit to a local church. Eventually Nora Gallagher entered into a yearlong journey to discover her faith and a relationship with God, using the Christian calendar as her compass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether writing about her brother's battle against cancer, talking to homeless men about the World Series, or questioning the afterlife (\"One world at a time\"), Gallagher draws us into a world of journeys and mysteries, yet grounded in a gritty reality. She braids together the symbols of the\u003cbr\u003eChristian calendar, the events of a year in one church, and her own spiritual journey, each strand combed out with harrowing intimacy. Thought provoking and profoundly perceptive, \u003cb\u003eThings Seen and Unseen\u003c\/b\u003e is a remarkable demonstration that \"the road to the sacred is paved with the ordinary.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like Kathleen Norris in \u003cb\u003eAmazing Grace\u003c\/b\u003e, Gallagher is renewing the language of ultimate concerns.\"—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The deep serenity that suffuses Gallagher's work, the lyrical cadences in which she writes, do not blunt the sharp edges of what she discovered in her quest for meaning.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014250250480,"sku":"9780679775492","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679775492_p0.jpg?v=1763609062","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679775492","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}