{"product_id":"9781453250341","title":"One Way or Another: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Spare, poised stories in a fashionably narrow range of the minor keys, with carefully plucked chords of foreboding and loss strumming just under the surface.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Cameron’s first collection of short stories, published while he was in his mid-twenties, marks the auspicious  debut of a rare talent. Here characters act on lies they spin to protect themselves,  or to protect others. In “What Do People Do All Day?”, a child gamely stalls a father’s confession of adultery. The heroine of “Fast Forward” tells her dying mother that she’s engaged—a lie designed to give the old woman a final few days of happiness. And in “Memorial Day,” a teenage boy struggles to adjust to his mother’s new husband, a stepfather only thirteen years his senior.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140590780656,"sku":"9781453250341","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453250341_p0.jpg?v=1763848696","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453250341","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}