{"product_id":"who-do-you-love-stories-9780743203012","title":"Who Do You Love: Stories","description":"In this acclaimed collection, Jean Thompson limns the lives of ordinary people -- a lonely social worker, a down-and-out junkie, a divorced cop on the night shift -- to extraordinary effect. With wisdom and sympathy and spare eloquence, she writes of their inarticulate longings for communion and grace.Yet even the saddest situations are imbued with Thompson s characteristic humor and a wry glimmer of hope. With \u003ci\u003eWho Do You Love, \u003c\/i\u003e readers will discover a writer with rare insight into the resiliency of the human spirit and the complexities of love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThompson, Jean:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels \u003ci\u003eA Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Driver, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMy Wisdom \u003c\/i\u003eand the short story collections \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWitch and Other Tales Re\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eTold, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYou Love \u003c\/i\u003e(a National Book Award finalist), \u003ci\u003eLittle Face and Other Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Gasoline Wars. \u003c\/i\u003eThompson's short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e and anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrize. \u003c\/i\u003eThompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358967660818,"sku":"9780743203012","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7d1ffe14-eb64-4c88-86a0-6a8d38a768f9.jpg?v=1749575629","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/who-do-you-love-stories-9780743203012","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}