{"product_id":"uncommon-other-stories-9781737694069","title":"Uncommon \u0026 Other Stories","description":"The broad range of characters in William Cass's moving second short story collection, \u003cem\u003eUncommon \u0026amp; Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, all share a fascination with right action-how we know it, when we know it, and what that knowledge asks of us-in real time or in retrospect. Cass's stories are deeply rooted in the particularities of daily life and of nature-whether how to run a small inn in Arizona, harvest hay in Montana, mend an old woman's decaying picket fence, feed oneself through a stomach tube, teach an abandoned child how to garden, rob your neighbors' vacation homes. Even in regret, there is a bracing affirmation, however delayed, that other choices were possible, and that we are graced by this knowledge, however uncomfortable it may also be. As one narrator explains, \"\u003cem\u003eNow as I enter this final chapter of life, I'm struck at how much of it has been made up of encounters and events like those-many random and seemingly small, some involving choices or control and others not-and how their meaning remains mysterious, indelible, confounding, fervent.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wising Up Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50394385350930,"sku":"9781737694069","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c8b41b55-216c-4f4e-aad5-784a814029d9.jpg?v=1729004024","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/uncommon-other-stories-9781737694069","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}