{"product_id":"9781889199177","title":"Kaleidoscope: 20 Stories Celebrating Women's Magazine Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning author of more than a dozen novels, including \"Safe Passage,\" which became a Susan Sarandon film, comes a collection of 20 of the writer's short stories originally published in such magazines as McCall's and Good Housekeeping in the 1980s and 1990s-- a celebration of women's magazine fiction during the height of its popularity, with subjects as contemporary as today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman takes up running as she struggles to return to normal after her divorce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mother stays home with her children during a school break but longs to be at work -- until her presence becomes crucial in averting a near-tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA family buys a dream house only to discover its all-too-helpful resident ghost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant engineer deals with the social consequences of being told she's too fat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA teenager thinks her parents are beyond the sexuality she is discovering in herself -- until her mother gets pregnant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn insecure teen feels like an \"extra\" in her own life until she becomes an extra in a movie. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman avoids romance so her strange \"gift\" won't be ridiculed -- as when music makes translucent pryamids dance before her eyes, or mint tasts like cool glass columns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes poignant, sometimes funny, always entertaining, these stories feel remarkably contemporary, touchin the heart of women's concerns, then and now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banks Channel Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039125455088,"sku":"9781889199177","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781889199177_p0.jpg?v=1763608318","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781889199177","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}