{"product_id":"music-through-the-floor-9780743270472","title":"Music Through the Floor","description":"\u003cb\u003eIncludes a new story, \"Body Language\"!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now in paperback, Eric Puchner's celebrated debut collection, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, established him as one of our most brilliant and promising new literary voices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Writing from an impressive range of perspectives -- men and women, children and adults, immigrants and tourists -- Puchner deftly exposes the dark, tender undersides of his characters with arresting beauty and precision. Here are people fumbling for identity in a dehumanizing world, captured in moments that are hilarious, shocking, and transcendent, sometimes all at once. Unfailingly true, surprisingly moving, and impossible to forget, these stories make up an extraordinary and strikingly original collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEric Puchner is the author of the collection \u003ci\u003eMusic Through the Floor\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the California Book Award and the NYPL Young Lions of Fiction Award, and of the novel \u003ci\u003eModel Home\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Prize. Eric is a former Stegner Fellow, a Pushcart Prize winner and winner of an award from the Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies including \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Non-Required Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e. His personal essays appear regularly in \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMedium\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Eric is a professor in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, the novelist Katharine Noel, and their two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scrb - Scribner MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327756833042,"sku":"9780743270472","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4190b88a-f508-4b60-a337-43257115edde.jpg?v=1727719963","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/music-through-the-floor-9780743270472","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}