{"product_id":"welding-with-children-9780312428792","title":"Welding with Children","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn eleven raucous, touching stories, Tim Gautreaux's \u003ci\u003eWelding with Children\u003c\/i\u003e traces the course of sin and redemption through the lives of small-town women and men in Louisiana. His unforgettable characters include a grandfather who discovers, while taking care of his grandchildren, that they are growing up without any sense at all of right and wrong; a camera repairman who discovers a woman's secret in her undeveloped film; and a one-armed hitchhiker who changes the life of the man who picks her up. Each one a small miracle of storytelling and compassion, Tim Gautreaux's stories are \"a pleasure from start to finish. You want to hand [this book] to your friends and say 'read this' \" (\u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Gautreaux\u003c\/b\u003e has written novels and collections of short stories, one of which, \u003ci\u003eWelding With Children\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eas a Notable Book of the Year. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's, GQ, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e, and also in volumes of \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew Stories from the South\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a professor emeritus\/writer in residence in the English Department at Southeastern Louisiana University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523526693138,"sku":"9780312428792","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_241ac57b-9f46-4e33-8961-d1f3f94d8b57.jpg?v=1731150914","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/welding-with-children-9780312428792","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}