{"product_id":"everyone-wants-to-be-ambassador-to-france-9781597097000","title":"Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France","description":"A seagull, a goat, and a teenage boy enter into a bizarre love triangle that leaves one of them dead and the other two changed forever. A grief-stricken astronaut quits NASA to paint pictures of the moon. A lonely scientist creates stars in his basement and becomes enraged when he discovers that one of his stars harbors life. An eighteenth-century British aristocrat adopts two teenage girls and absconds with them to France, determined to raise one of them to become his perfect wife. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, this debut collection offers weird and wonderful stories that illuminate the hidden truths of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHurt, Bryan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Bryan Hurt is the editor of \u003ci\u003eWatchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest\u003c\/i\u003e. His stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe American Reader, Guernica, The Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Review, TriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications. He is an assistant professor of English at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his family.","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50421186855186,"sku":"9781597097000","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7aa6069a-489a-4499-afa3-dc0667359b98.jpg?v=1729503626","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/everyone-wants-to-be-ambassador-to-france-9781597097000","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}