{"product_id":"9781609090890","title":"Something That Feels Like Truth","description":"Donald Lystra’s first novel, \u003ci\u003eSeason of Water and Ice\u003c\/i\u003e, was the winner of the 2009 Midwest Book Award for fiction, making a nice publicity splash for our fiction imprint, Switchgrass, which proudly published it. The book garnered lots of publicity too, earing praise for Switchgrass in the pages of the \u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eDetroit Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime Out Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and other venues. This volume gathers a bracing selection of short stories by Lystra that are very much cut from the same cloth as his highly acclaimed novel. The stories in \u003ci\u003eSomething That Feels Like Truth\u003c\/i\u003e confound expected plot turns, and Lystra develops his characters patiently and naturally, bringing them into convincing and honest actions. Lystra was a career engineer before retiring and launching a second career as a writer: I like to think this is why his fiction operates with such mathematical precision. Every plot point in every story here holds an integral part in the imbuing of its beauty and meaning. You can also tell Lystra has read a lot of Hemingway and Chekov: and that he aspires to be an inheritor of their effectively concise tradition. But there’s a touch of Cheever in Lystra’s stories as well: what that master storyteller did for the suburbs of New York, Lystra does for the Midwest.","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134126014704,"sku":"9781609090890","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609090890_p0.jpg?v=1763838437","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609090890","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}