{"product_id":"little-sinners-and-other-stories-9780803243422","title":"Little Sinners and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown's \u003ci\u003eLittle Sinners, and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the bottom of the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale blue-custom suit--and disappears. The dead leave behind postcards, houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their stories part of the characters' own: an expectant mother in an isolated cottage on Long Island Sound uncovers an unsettling secret in her backyard; a troubled housewife is lured to a dinner party by a teenage girl whose mother has vanished under mysterious circumstances; a woman and her lover swim the pools of their neighborhood under cover of darkness; a young heiress struggles with mortality and the abandonments in her past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories capture the domestic world in all its blighted promise--a world where women's roles in housekeeping, marriage, childbirth, and sex have been all too well defined, and where the characters fashion, recklessly and passionately, their own methods of escape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaren Brown is the author of \u003ci\u003ePins and Needles: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eThe Longings of Wayward Girls: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories have been included in \u003ci\u003eThe PEN\/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2008\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51500772000018,"sku":"9780803243422","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_41107a66-2954-43df-b336-1074e0edd326.jpg?v=1753200202","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/little-sinners-and-other-stories-9780803243422","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}