{"product_id":"9781574416237","title":"Last Words of the Holy Ghost","description":"Funny, heartbreaking, and real—these twelve stories showcase a dynamic range of voices belonging to characters who can't stop confessing. They are obsessive storytellers, disturbed professors, depressed auctioneers, gambling clergy. A fourteen-year-old boy gets baptized and speaks in tongues to win the love of a girl who ushers him into adulthood; a troubled insomniac searches the woods behind his mother's house for the \"awful pretty\" singing that begins each midnight; a school-system employee plans a year-end party at the site of a child's drowning; a burned-out health-care administrator retires from New England to coastal Georgia and stumbles upon a life-changing moment inside Walmart. These big-hearted people—tethered to the places that shape them—survive their daily sorrows and absurdities with well-timed laughter; they slouch toward forgiveness, and they point their ears toward the Holy Ghost's last words.","brand":"University of North Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175375651056,"sku":"9781574416237","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781574416237_p0.jpg?v=1763797293","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781574416237","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}