{"product_id":"spider-in-a-tree-9781618730695","title":"Spider in a Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human.\"--Alison Bechdel, author of \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Through an ardent faith in the written word Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities.\"--Alice Sebold, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lovely Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wonderfully fuses the historic and the imaginative.\"--Kenneth Minkema, executive director, Jonathan Edwards Center\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Edwards is considered America's most brilliant theologian. He was also a slave owner. This is the story of the years he spent preaching in eighteenth century Northampton, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his famous sermon \"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,\" Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards's young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards's wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Stinson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three novels and a collection of poetry and lyric essays and was awarded the Lambda Literary Foundation's Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Writer in Residence at Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts, she is also an editor and writing coach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan Stinson (susanstinson.net) is the author of four novels, including \u003ci\u003eSpider in a Tree\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMartha Moody, \u003c\/i\u003e and a collection of poetry and lyric essays. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Public Humanist, The Kenyon Review, The Seneca Review, Curve, Lambda Literary Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Women's Review of Books.\u003c\/i\u003e She has taught at Amherst College, been awarded the Lambda Literary Foundation's Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, and has received a number of fellowships. An editor and writing coach, she was born in Texas, raised in Colorado, and now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Small Beer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50360697389330,"sku":"9781618730695","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a8c284d8-730b-41b7-9f16-619e4ea6923c.jpg?v=1728364998","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/spider-in-a-tree-9781618730695","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}