{"product_id":"dr-kings-refrigerator-and-other-bedtime-stories-9780743264549","title":"Dr. King's Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson comes a sly, witty, and insightful collection of short stories exploring issues of race and identity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Sweet Dreams,\" a Kafkaesque tale is set in a world where dreams are taxed--a reality that leads to a man and his dreamlife being audited. In \"Cultural Relativity,\" a young woman falls in love with the son of the president of an African nation--but is forbidden to ever kiss him. A deeply humane story, \"Dr. King's Refrigerator\" offers a remarkable glimpse into Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and his refrigerator. \"Kwoon\" is a graceful and illuminating story about a martial arts teacher on Chicago's South Side. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCompassionate and amusing, thought-provoking and richly imagined, \u003ci\u003eDr. King's Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful and compelling collection from one of America's most beloved authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohnson, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes \u003ci\u003eNight Hawks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDr. King's Refrigerator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDreamer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFaith and the Good Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183537619218,"sku":"9780743264549","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c13fb876-fc60-447e-9956-33c87b1a5728.jpg?v=1744469201","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dr-kings-refrigerator-and-other-bedtime-stories-9780743264549","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}