{"product_id":"9781504915366","title":"Dinosaur Café: A Semblance of Monstrous Prairie Creatures","description":"hese five stories will leave the reader stunned by unforgettable characters, who are, by turns, superstitious, stubborn, comic, and, even, grotesque.   The setting of these stories: a Macondo-like small town, where miracles, and would-be miracles, can and do happen in a backwater of history, which is actually the battle zone of the human heart, in  conflict with itself.   From the title piece, in which a shadowy artist, on the ceiling of a small town cafe, creates murals of a startling and paradoxical richness; to the plaintive monologue of an elderly farm-woman, standing in the way of the plow that threatens the graves of babies she has sworn to protect; to the marvelous powers of an overworked  faith-healer: these stories---shaped from the lore, superstitions, and history of the Dakota Germans---reveal the intense inner world of an unknown ethnic group, working out its destiny on the immensities of the American prairie.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180606144752,"sku":"9781504915366","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504915366_p0.jpg?v=1763711716","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504915366","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}