{"product_id":"nothing-with-strings-nprs-beloved-holiday-stories-9781439102886","title":"Nothing with Strings: Npr's Beloved Holiday Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e listeners.\u003c\/b\u003e Long awaited by her many fans, \u003ci\u003eNothing with Strings\u003c\/i\u003e is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With wit and charm, Bailey White writes about an almost-gone little town where a spoon player is a guardian angel, an old woman fears that John James Audubon is living in her attic, and a homely governess wins a baby bull in a raffle and loses her heart. It's the kind of place where Heavenly Blue morning glories grow in through the windows of old houses and funeral food is shared on a Greyhound bus on a fall afternoon. You may not have ever been there, but you will feel right at home in these pages. Bailey White's beautifully written stories, teetering on the edge of the unreal, are sure to bring back memories you don't really have.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite, Bailey:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eBailey White\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in Thomasville, Georgia. She has worked as a schoolteacher and a writer. Her essays and stories have appeared in magazines and on NPR's \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of two story collections, \u003ci\u003eama Makes Up Her Mind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSleeping at the Starlite Motel\u003c\/i\u003e, and a novel, \u003ci\u003eQuite a Year for Plums\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50465921007890,"sku":"9781439102886","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fdbdd8b8-5b8b-46a7-acf7-27e245598668.jpg?v=1730114614","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nothing-with-strings-nprs-beloved-holiday-stories-9781439102886","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}