{"product_id":"pythons-kiss-stories-9780063375000","title":"Python's Kiss: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt was as though I was chosen--marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich's magnificent story collection features a range of characters--a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone. A man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe--an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter--these stories offer an oppor­tunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America's most important writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eErdrich, Louise:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise Erdrich\u003c\/strong\u003e, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52128918831378,"sku":"9780063375000","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_16a839cc-d2a1-4a0b-adeb-f46bf1dd40dc.jpg?v=1773824439","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pythons-kiss-stories-9780063375000","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}