{"product_id":"9781566891387","title":"Acts of Love on Indigo Road: New and Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo one is better than Jonis Agee at capturing the bone-deep desire and big-eyed longing of a hardscrabble, small-town life. This major collection, highlighting Agee’s astonishing literary achievements, includes powerful new stories and a comprehensive selection from her critically acclaimed books \u003ci\u003ePretend We’ve Never Met, Bend This Heart, A .38 Special and a Broken Heart\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eTaking the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonis Agee’s stories are as broad as their landscape, spanning the Great Lakes and traveling through the Great Plains on a straight shot to the heart. \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e refers to Agee’s short fiction as the \". . . clear-eyed reports of someone who sees things as they are, not as she would wish them to be\" and each story in this collection is raw, deeply memorable, and dedicated to brutally introspective and truthful moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eActs of Love on Indigo Road\u003c\/i\u003e , Agee’s characters continue to dream big and love deep while rushing headlong into the awareness that, finally, there are \"only the dead to bear witness to what acts of love can do to the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In story after story, the mask drops away from gen-tility, and we come face to face with the truth. These -stories are beautiful because of their courage: there is nothing they are afraid to say.\"—Charles Baxter on \u003ci\u003eBend This Heart\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJonis Agee \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four novels, four collections of short fiction, and a book of poetry. Three of her books— \u003ci\u003eStrange Angels, Bend This Heart, and Sweet Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e —were named Notable Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e . \u003ci\u003eTaking the Wall \u003c\/i\u003e won the \u003ci\u003eForeWord Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e Editor’s Choice Award and \u003ci\u003eThe Weight of Dreams \u003c\/i\u003e won the Nebraska Book Award. Jonis Agee is a Nebraska native who has lived and taught throughout the Midwest. She is now Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050337517808,"sku":"9781566891387","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566891387_p0.jpg?v=1763791076","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566891387","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}