{"product_id":"9781466832664","title":"Born on a Train: Thirteen Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo years ago--at twenty-two--John McManus captivated writers and critics with his first story collection and became the youngest recipient of the Whiting Writers Award. Now McManus returns with a collection of stories equally piercing and visionary: stories about the young and old, compromised by circumstance and curiosity, and undergoing startling transformations. In \"Eastbound,\" a car driven by two elderly sisters breaks down on an elevated highway: Beneath them lies the lost country of the South, overrun with concrete and shopping centers but still possessing the spectres and secrets of the past. In \"Brood,\" a plucky young heroine moves with her mother into the home of the mother's online boyfriend: She will use the\u003ci\u003e Audubon Guide to Birds\u003c\/i\u003e, and her own wits to survive the advances of the boyfriend's teenaged son. In \"Cowry,\" two backpackers in New Zealand race to witness the first sunrise of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143925711088,"sku":"9781466832664","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466832664_p0.jpg?v=1769891100","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466832664","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}