{"product_id":"9780877456919","title":"Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night: Stories","description":"\u003ci\u003eOut of the Girls' Room and into the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a spirited, offbeat collection of stories, elongated riffs on that thing we call . . . love.  All manner of love stories: thwarted love stories, imaginary love stories, love stories offhand and obsessive, philosophical love  stories, erudite and amusing love stories.   \u003cp\u003e  \"People don't meet because they both like Burmese food,\" says one character, \"or because someone's sister has a friend who's  single and new in town, or because Billy's nose happened to crook just slightly to the left at an angle that made me want to  weep. . . . People don't fall in love with each other . . . they just fall into love.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Everyone does it: women of fierce independence, men of thin character, rambling Deadheads, gay teenage girls, despondent  Peace Corps volunteers, anorexic Broadway theatre dancers, the eager, the grieving, the uncommunicative. Even the confused  do it. And they don't just fall in love with each other-they fall in love with certain moments and familiar places, with things as  ephemeral as gestures and as evanescent as sunlight.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Quirky, real, idealistic, deluded, bohemian, and true, these are people who can-and often do-fall in love with a pair of ears,  August afternoons, saucers of vitamins, New Age carpenters, and dead bumblebees. And if there's something they can teach  us, it's how to conceive of alternative worlds and the terror and the exhilaration of venturing outside the confines of the lives we  know and making our way into a dark, glittering unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008225067248,"sku":"9780877456919","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780877456919_p0.gif?v=1763844182","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780877456919","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}