{"product_id":"book-br3a","title":"Midnight Jesus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt's three A.M. in the side yard of a shack in the worst part of town.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI’ve got a dirty-faced baby on my hip and there’s a pit bull standing on the septic tank in the next yard over, barking his head off. My patient sits on the hood of her ex-husband’s lowrider, smoking a cigarette and dumping her pills into a mud hole by the right front tire. Airbrushed across the hood of the car is a cross-eyed Jesus with open arms. She lays her hand on top of his as the still-hot engine ticks. Through tears she pleads, “Help me, Jesus, please.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe dog is silent. Sirens approach. “Just breathe,” I tell her. “Everything’s gonna be all right.” The baby fidgets, resting her head against me, staring up into my eyes. I raise one finger and she holds it tight. I fumble for the words again. “Just breathe.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidnight Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e shares fascinating, bizarre, and sometimes hilarious true-life stories of everyday people looking for hope in their darkest hours. Poignant and unpretentious, Jamie paints beauty where at times it seems none exists — from skating rinks and bars, late-night highways and lonely apartments, broken churches and run-down trailer parks, jail cells, bridge rails, ERs, psych wards, and that place over the levee where God laughs and walks through the cool dark night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oasis Audio, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49385884713264,"sku":"BDbr3a","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/293179-br3a-Square.jpg?v=1735149021","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-br3a","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}