{"product_id":"an-hour-in-paradise-stories-9780393325843","title":"An Hour in Paradise: Stories","description":"Joan Leegant's collection takes its title from the Yiddish proverb \"Even an hour in Paradise is worthwhile.\" In settings from Jerusalem to Queens, from Hollywood's outskirts to Sarasota, Florida, the characters in this mesmerizing debut collection are drawn to the seductions of religion, soldiering on in search of divine and human connection. A former drug dealer turned yeshiva student faces his past with a dying AIDS patient. A disaffected American in the ancient city of Safed ventures into Kabbalist mysticism and gets more than he bargained for. A rabbi whose morning minyan is visited by a pair of Siamese twins considers the possibility that his guests are not mere mortals. An aging Jerusalemite chronicles his country's changes during the biblical year of rest. By turns poignant and comic, unflinching and compassionate--with a dose of fabulist daring--\u003cem\u003eAn Hour in Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e explores the dangers and unforeseen rewards of our most fundamental longings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeegant, Joan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJoan Leegant\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAn Hour in Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWherever You Go\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for the best book of Jewish-American fiction and the L. L. Winship\/PEN New England Award. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917678809362,"sku":"9780393325843","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_51124f17-45db-4b14-91d3-be40b361aad4.jpg?v=1738868868","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-hour-in-paradise-stories-9780393325843","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}