{"product_id":"9781463469849","title":"The Yellow Jeep - Stories and Songs","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoel Vernon Smith invites you to watch while life unfolds for entities we’ll never meet, in settings far from our day-to-day locales.  Each character is someone we once loved.  Or we wish we \u003cb\u003ecould\u003c\/b\u003e have loved.  Or perhaps we seek merely to understand her.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e A sensitive teen takes his dad’s memory for a ride in a new four-wheel-drive in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.  A married couple shares a traumatic memory of a decaying barn.  A passionate duo learns that their ship is doomed.  A wealthy college student argues with his girlfriend when a draft notice arrives.  A mentally-troubled elderly woman claims a friendship with a man of smoke.  Frightful demons force a man to do a dark tunnel-dance in front of a stalled bus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author of \u003cb\u003eThe Rapists\u003c\/b\u003e bids you to explore the lives of mostly-gentle human beings as they deal with feelings of love or the arrival of unexpected horror.  If it’s true (as a late-sixties song suggests) that words of love won’t win a girl’s heart anymore, perhaps the reader should open this book and take a journey to somewhere she’s never been before.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ride will be exciting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129640993008,"sku":"9781463469849","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781463469849_p0.jpg?v=1763682085","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781463469849","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}