{"product_id":"9781416546429","title":"The Mother Garden: Stories","description":"Robin Romm's arresting and resonant stories take on the fundamental themes of the human condition: mortality, loyalty, and love. In fresh and irreverent prose, Romm captures the mo-ments before and after loss, mining the depths of grief with wit and grace. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Mother Garden\u003c\/i\u003e are at once vividly realistic and infused with the bizarre -- a man uses a chicken egg to test whether he is ready for fatherhood; a daughter plants a garden of mothers to replace her own; a family's ghosts literally fall through the ceiling, disrupting daily life; a woman finds her father sleeping in the desert after twenty-six years of living without him. People stumble in relationships, start families, struggle with illness, learn to mourn -- and as in life, these acts are consuming, magical, and disorienting. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sharply funny and deeply moving, this extraordinary collection introduces a young writer of fierce originality and prodigious talent.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141121425648,"sku":"9781416546429","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416546429_p0.jpg?v=1763726554","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416546429","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}