{"product_id":"9781933354309","title":"Tender As Hellfire","description":"\u003cbr\u003e“Features some of the liveliest characters that one is apt to meet in a contemporary novel. Vividly described.”\u003ci\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Extremely vivid. . . . Any number of novels have been written about unhappy childhoods and bizarre families, but this one surpasses many.”\u003ci\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Meno limns a near-fantastical world of trailer park floozies, broken-down ’76 Impalas, lost glass eyes, and the daily experiences of two boys trying to make sense of their random, sharp lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoe Meno\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eHairstyles of the Damned, The Boy Detective Fails,\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e How the Hula Girl Sings.\u003c\/i\u003e He was the winner of the 2003 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040206143728,"sku":"9781933354309","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933354309_p0.jpg?v=1763640724","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933354309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}