{"product_id":"thank-your-lucky-stars-9781938769351","title":"Thank Your Lucky Stars","description":"\u003cb\u003eFull of wit and humor, Sherrie Flick's second collection introduces readers to big worlds and major characters in short, sometimes very short, stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom a woman buying corn who gets more than what she bargained for to a cowboy down on his luck, these complex stories serve up love and loss, longing and heartbreak, and cruelty and tenderness in poetic images and the most satisfying of moments.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherrie Flick \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the short story collections, \u003ci\u003eI Have Not Considered Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThank Your Lucky Stars\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhiskey, Etc.\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by Autumn House Press), the novel\u003ci\u003e Reconsidering Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Nebraska Press), and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eHoming: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Nebraska Press). \u003ci\u003eWhiskey, Etc.\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the Foreword INDIES bronze prize and named one of Entropy's Best Fiction Books of 2016. A story from \u003ci\u003eThank Your Lucky Stars \u003c\/i\u003ewas performed at Symphony Space and aired on NPR's Selected Shorts. She served as coeditor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eFlash Fiction America \u003c\/i\u003e(W. W. Norton) with James Thomas and John Dufresne and was series editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Best Small Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e 2018 with guest editor Aimee Bender. She is the recipient of a 2023 Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She lives in Pittsburgh where she is a senior lecturer at Chatham University and a member of Shiftworks' Creative Corps.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Autumn House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857179382034,"sku":"9781938769351","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3d1e3bd2-678b-4308-9729-cbd8a2ce214c.jpg?v=1737524008","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/thank-your-lucky-stars-9781938769351","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}