{"product_id":"9781627794664","title":"We've Already Gone This Far: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA heartfelt, vital collection; the debut of an exciting new talent already hailed as one of George Saunders' \"favorite young American writers\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Patrick Dacey's stunning debut, we meet longtime neighbors and  friends--citizens of working-class Wequaquet--right when the ground  beneath their feet has shifted in ways they don't yet understand. Here,  after more than a decade of boom and bust, love and pride are closely  twinned and dangerously deployed: a lonely woman attacks a memorial to a  neighbor's veteran son; a dissatisfied housewife goes overboard with  cosmetic surgery on national television; a young father walks away from  one of the few jobs left in town, a soldier writes home to a mother who  is becoming increasingly unhinged. \u003ci\u003eWe've Already Gone This Far\u003c\/i\u003e  takes us to a town like many towns in America, a place where people are  searching for what is now an almost out-of-reach version of the American  Dream\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStory by story, Dacey draws us into the secret lives of  recognizable strangers and reminds us that life's strange intensity and  occasional magic is all around us, especially in the everyday. With a  skewering insight and real warmth of spirit, Dacey delivers that rare  and wonderful thing in American fiction: a deeply-felt, deeply-imagined  book about where we've been and how far we have to go.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130862944496,"sku":"9781627794664","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781627794664_p0.jpg?v=1769905588","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781627794664","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}