{"product_id":"9781460979495","title":"Acts of God While on Vacation","description":"\u003cbr\u003eACTS OF GOD WHILE ON VACATION was a National Semi-Finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. It begins with a death threat received by a philandering general manager of a lavish Hawaii resort, jumps to an anthropologist researching headhunters in the jungles of Borneo, then to a demonic, scandal-mongering paparazzo in New York, and on to a gorgeous, party-loving English aristocrat in London. Alternately desperate and hilarious adventures draw them all to Waikiki, where their arrival coincides with an international conference on shamanism and a catastrophic, force-five hurricane.\u003cp\u003e\"A rollicking page-turner ... This is Hawaii's best fiction book of 2011.\" - HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The author's light-hearted tone makes the deep ideas a pleasure, while the inclusion of a diversity of belief systems makes this open-minded novel as entertaining as it is enlightening.\" - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A shamanically-skewed romp of brilliant insight and slapstick comedy\" - HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Laugh-out-loud funny, while also ringing true\" - HONOLULU WEEKLY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A comic novel with serious edges. Even more remarkable: It's one of the few fictions set in Hawaii that gets all the details right.\" - HONOLULU MAGAZINE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043824550128,"sku":"9781460979495","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781460979495_p0.jpg?v=1763673038","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781460979495","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}