{"product_id":"9780802191779","title":"The Next New World","description":"\u003cb\u003e“If we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” —\u003ci\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe haunting stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Next New World\u003c\/i\u003e have a directness, an immediacy, a funny, sexy quality that belongs to today, yet they are infused with an aura of history. The characters are outrageous originals who through Shacochis’s telling, become eerily familiar: two elderly sisters share a phantom lover; a Virginia patriarch, haunted by ghosts of Confederate soldiers, is buried with their bones; a family celebrates the Fourth of July in the shadow of the father’s Alzheimer’s syndrome; a musician’s thunderous love turns him into a cannibal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Charged with wit and style . . . Intelligent, engaging, and richly realized.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Shacochis is a master of voices. . . . In \u003ci\u003eThe Next New World\u003c\/i\u003e he roams about through history and across the globe, tethering his wit to a sense of political conscience. . . . Sometimes more is more.”  —\u003ci\u003eMiami Herlad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127950131440,"sku":"9780802191779","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802191779","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}