{"product_id":"9781550964264","title":"The Gift of Women","description":"\u003cbr\u003eGeorge McWhirter grounds his delightful characters in the real, while his sharp wit and creative scenarios border on the fantastical: a woman adopts a dolphin-man; an Irish madam runs a railroad bordello in the desert; a devoted husband drives his childless, belly-dancing wife to Greek tavernas with the ambition to quicken their lagging fertility; a Kurdish barber has a cure for hair loss, but not the loss of his wife and family in Iraq; a Mexican campesino swears his machete-severed ear is a sea shell tuned to the Pacific Ocean. \u003ci\u003eThe Gift of Women\u003c\/i\u003e is about religion and sexuality, the surreal and the magical, a tale-telling of earthy and incendiary women, capable of setting a man, a valley, and an entire island on fire.","brand":"Exile Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145514139888,"sku":"9781550964264","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550964264","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}