{"product_id":"9780802196347","title":"The Middleman and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA National Book Critics Circle Award winner and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book: “intelligent, versatile . . . profound” stories of migration in America (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Illuminating a new world of people in migration that has transformed the essence of America, these collected stories are a dazzling display of the vision of this critically-acclaimed contemporary writer.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience. An Indian widow tries to explain her culture’s traditions of grieving to her well-intentioned friends. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Passionate, comic, violent, and tender, these stories draw us into a cultural fusion in the midst of its birth pangs, expressing a “consummated romance with the American language” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128423694576,"sku":"9780802196347","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802196347_p0.jpg?v=1769907590","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802196347","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}