{"product_id":"death-is-not-an-option-9780393339901","title":"Death Is Not an Option","description":"In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption in her school's contrived class rituals; and a woman looking to rent a house is sucked into a strangely inappropriate correspondence with one of the landlords. These are just a few of the powerful plotlines in Suzanne Rivecca's gorgeously wrought collection. From a college student who adopts a false hippie persona to find love, to a young memoirist who bumps up against a sexually obsessed fan, the characters in these fiercely original tales grapple with what it means to be honest with themselves and the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These stories explode \"with piercing insight . . . illuminating the dangerous dance between victims and saviors. [They] deliver us to the edge of grief, that precarious place where the moral compass spins--where codes of love and law and religion fail. Mercy here depends on a tiger's sublime grace, our capacity to resist deeper harm, and the right of every broken being to remain silent\" (Melanie Rae Thon).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRivecca, Suzanne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSuzanne Rivecca\u003c\/strong\u003e's fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBest New American Voices 2009\u003c\/em\u003e, among other publications. A winner of the Pushcart Prize and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she lives in San Francisco.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324034421010,"sku":"9780393339901","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ac1895c3-1a19-465f-a6b4-1494151442cf.jpg?v=1727664799","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/death-is-not-an-option-9780393339901","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}