{"product_id":"9781936747634","title":"Praying Drunk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide and crying like a baby.\"—Daniel Handler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe characters in \u003ci\u003ePraying Drunk\u003c\/i\u003e speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken glass; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails to fend off his bully. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and spiritually alive throughout the untamable turbulence of their worlds. In a masterful blend of fiction, autobiography, and surrealism, Kyle Minor shows us that the space between fearlessness and terror is often very small. Long before \u003ci\u003ePraying Drunk\u003c\/i\u003e reaches its plaintive, pitch-perfect end, Minor establishes himself again and again as one of the most talented younger writers in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060034748656,"sku":"9781936747634","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936747634_p0.jpg?v=1769897968","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936747634","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}