{"product_id":"9781587296147","title":"Whose World Is This?","description":"\u003cp\u003eMontgomery's characters blow drugs and boys, advise friends who are dying of AIDS about pennies in penny loafers, write letters to Caroline Kennedy, and fall in love with movie stars. Some lose themselves to ambivalence while contemplating motherhood; others find themselves soothed when, after hearing of the sudden death of a dear friend they seduce a stranger.\u003cbr\u003e       In the story \"We Americans,\" a woman abandoned by her husband grows so vulnerable, she internalizes TV news tragedies by developing hives in the shapes of foreign countries. In the title story, Hannah, a speed freak working the graveyard shift in a nursing home, falls in love with a quadriplegic who void of feelings in his limbs, feel things she cannot. In \"Avalanche\", an editor to movie stars in Beverly Hills struggles with how to reconcile her own story with the fairy-tale endings of celebrity culture.\u003cbr\u003e    Tender, poignant, and at times hilarious, the women in \u003ci\u003eWhose World Is This? \u003c\/i\u003eturn common notions of love, compassion, and tradition upside down as they show us how vulnerability, although dangerous, is what makes life astonishingly beautiful and reality strangely unreal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056058319088,"sku":"9781587296147","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781587296147_p0.jpg?v=1763807247","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781587296147","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}