{"product_id":"9780692025598","title":"Happy Hour: Stories","description":"Welcome to HAPPY HOUR, Alison Baker's third collection of quirky, heart-breaking stories. With her trademark humor and distinctive opening lines, she drops us right into the lives of characters yearning for connection in a world they never expected to inhabit.\u003cp\u003eAn itinerant cosmetics salesman falls in love with a wilderness guide twenty years his junior. A physician falls in love with a faith healer. A young woman's life is utterly changed by her brother's traumatic brain injury. And a middle-aged daughter finds both grief and hilarity in her elderly parents' nursing home life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe characters here may be astonished to find themselves in midlife, but the issues they face are timeless: aging parents and thankless children; love and death; the inevitable losses -- and the unexpected joys -- that come with age. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Baker's humor never outweighs her compassion for the eccentric ways of the human heart.\" -- CONTRA COSTA TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If the world is looking a bit mundane, try seeing it through Alison Baker's eyes.\" -- THE BELLINGHAM HERALD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Runner-up, Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Finalist, Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tickenoak Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49893621399792,"sku":"9780692025598","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692025598","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}