{"product_id":"joe-jones-9781593760038","title":"Joe Jones","description":"\"If love is details, so is storytelling, and Anne Lamott excels at it. Her way with analogy, metaphor, and evocative detail is subtle; her ability to shift from the specific to the general to the specific again, superb.\"--The Nation \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoe Jones is Anne Lamott's raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie's Café, \"a restaurant from another era, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck or Saroyan.\" Jessie, \"thin, stooped and gorgeous at seventy-nine,\" inherited the café years before and it has become home to a remarkable family of characters: Louise, the cook and vortex, \"sexy and sweet, somewhere on the cusp between curvaceous and fat\"; Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessie's gay grandson, (\"I thought he just had good posture,\" said Jessie); Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday. Lamott's rich and timeless themes are also here: love and loyalty, loss and recovery, staying on and staying together, the power of humor to heal and to bind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Lamott\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOperating Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBird by Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTraveling Mercies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlue Shoe\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other works. She lives in Northern California with her son, Sam.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50670927479058,"sku":"9781593760038","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d6742333-edd2-412e-8e5d-ee697b7c1a70.jpg?v=1733791120","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/joe-jones-9781593760038","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}