{"product_id":"9780991533633","title":"New York Lonely","description":"\"In her collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eNew York Lonely,\u003c\/i\u003e Rochelle Ratner has vividly rendered lives in snapshots from a camera that captures the inner details as sharply as the outer ones. There’s a richness in these tales composed of ironies and elegies, humor and unspeakable grief—as well as a grief that has learned how to speak, and when to remain silent as a presence in the room. Consider: a young woman measures her unfolding relationship to her new boyfriend through a kitten he introduces to the reigning household cat, Delilah; a man intent on buying a car ends up trading in his wife; a dating service run by shrinks for the benefit of their clients; high school friends gathered at the funeral of a classmate who served in Iraq wonder about their lives as they examine old photos; a man selected for jury duty attempts to get close to a woman in the pool; a butcher talks about the world as he sees it through the eyes of one who kills and butchers chickens; a woman in a Greenwich Village restaurant with the price tag dangling from her sweater, becomes the subject of an imaginative rumination; and a woman still in the hospital recovering from a hysterectomy watches a TV soap about a woman who has delivered a still-born fetus. \u003ci\u003eNew York Lonely\u003c\/i\u003e is both a testament and a summation. In the end, the generosity of spirit and compassion familiar to all who knew her, hold the richness of the work like water in cupped hands.\" —Paul Pines","brand":"Myrmaid Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120397566192,"sku":"9780991533633","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780991533633_p0.jpg?v=1763887020","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780991533633","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}