{"product_id":"9781619026230","title":"Refund: Stories","description":"\u003cbr\u003eWe think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn’t. How you get it. How you don’t.\u003cp\u003eBender uses this very powerful force to pull together a unified collection of stories that deeply explore the ways in which money and the subsequent estimation of value affect the lives of her characters. The stories in \u003ci\u003eRefund\u003c\/i\u003e reflect our contemporary world—swindlers, reality show creators, desperate artists, siblings, parents — who struggle to figure out how to obtain money, how to give it, earn it, lose it, all the while trying to answer the question: What is the real definition of worth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn “Theft,” an eighty-year-old swindler, accustomed to tricking people for their money, discovers she has Alzheimer’s and boards a cruise ship to see if she can find something of true value—a human connection. In “Anything for Money,” the creator of a popular reality show is thrown into the real world when his estranged granddaughter reenters his life in need of a new heart; in “The Sea Turtle Hospital,” a young teacher and her charge survive another school lockdown to seek out comfort in stranded sea animals, as they learn to cherish themselves and all living things; and in the provocative title story, young artist parents in downtown Manhattan escape the attack on 9\/11 only to face a battle over their subletted apartment with a stranger who might have lost more than only her deposit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in New York City, the American South, and Los Angeles, these stories explore what we can afford and what we cannot and herald a work of singular literary merit by an important writer at the height of her power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051408670960,"sku":"9781619026230","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619026230_p0.jpg?v=1763856112","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619026230","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}