{"product_id":"9781587297755","title":"Desert Gothic","description":"This powerful debut collection, set in the light-filled deserts of Nevada and Arizona, introduces a darkly inventive new voice. Like an early Richard Ford, Don Waters writes with skill, empathy, and an edgy wit of worlds not often celebrated in contemporary literature. In \u003ci\u003eDesert Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e, Waters unleashes a wild and gritty cast and points them down paths of reckoning, where the characters earn the grace of their hard-won wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e      Set in bars, mortuaries, nursing homes, truck stops, and the “poverty motels that encircled downtown’s casino corridor,” Waters’s ten stories are full of misfit transients like Julian, a crematorium worker who decorates abandoned urns to create a “lush underground island,” and the instant Mormon missionary Eli, a hapless divorcé who “always likes people better when they’re a little broken.” Limo drivers, ultra-marathoners, vagabonds, and a distraught novelist-to-be populate the pages of these gritty stories.","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112076394736,"sku":"9781587297755","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781587297755_p0.jpg?v=1763806291","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781587297755","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}