{"product_id":"prodigals-stories-9781250118059","title":"Prodigals: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring a violent storm, a filmmaker escapes New York, accompanied by a woman who may be his therapist. A lawyer in the throes of divorce seeks refuge at her seaside cottage only to find a vagrant girl living in it. A dilettantish banker sees his ambitions laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters. A group of friends gathers in the California desert for one last bacchanal, and a journalist finds his visit to the French country home of a former tennis star take a deeply unnerving turn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStrivers, misfits, and children of privilege, the restless, sympathetic characters in Jackson's stellar short story collection, \u003ci\u003eProdigals, \u003c\/i\u003ehew to passion and perversity through life's tempests. Theirs is a quest for meaning and authenticity in lives spoiled by self-knowledge and haunted by spiritual longing. Lyrical and unflinching, cerebral and surreal, this collection maps the degradations of contemporary life with insight and grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGREG JACKSON\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Boston and coastal Maine. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Virginia and has been a Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center and a resident at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A winner of the Balch and Henfield prizes, he was a finalist for the 2014 National Magazine Award in Fiction. \u003ci\u003eProdigals\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50462304764178,"sku":"9781250118059","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_950eb866-1eee-4931-9328-1c74960d6b9d.jpg?v=1730085582","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/prodigals-stories-9781250118059","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}