{"product_id":"9781619279032","title":"Butterflies...and Other Stories","description":"These seven short stories--perhaps vignettes would be a better term--are works of fiction. Although some of them were inspired (if that is the appropriate word) by a triggering event that I either experienced or observed, I tried to imbue the characters and their words and actions with a reality that has broad validity and only an incidental relationship to me and the people around me. The stories were not intended to be a vehicle for quasi-autobiographical ruminations. I had no idea when I wrote the first of these stories several years ago how many there would eventually be or what would be the range of settings they would explore. As I think will be obvious, the characters are not the same from story to story. Nor are the stories chronologically sequential. Yet, as I look at this small collection now, it strikes me that the stories span a generation in the lives of the principal male characters, from early parenthood to early grand-parenthood. I didn’t set out to do that; it just happened.","brand":"BookBaby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168022380784,"sku":"9781619279032","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619279032_p0.jpg?v=1763855378","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619279032","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}