{"product_id":"9781943201051","title":"Collateral Damage and Stories","description":"The stories in this collection examine the ways we use imagination to set aside human anguish and move on with our lives. Here baseball opens a passageway to life after death, obsession transforms romantic complexities into a corrupted form of happiness, conquest and empire begets guilt and a healing sacrifice, and the recipients of medical technology deal with the well-meant horrors inflicted on them.\u003cp\u003eIn Collateral Damage, the collection's centerpiece, writer John Fromme suffers a mental upset caused by his refusal to confront a family murder he witnessed as a child. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuirky, richly imagined characters populate these stories, inviting readers to measure them against their own lives and to want to read these stories again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorMike Ink","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039919259888,"sku":"9781943201051","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781943201051_p0.jpg?v=1763758441","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943201051","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}