{"product_id":"book-c1br","title":"Ninety-Nine Stories of God","description":"\u003cp\u003ePulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In \u003ci\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/i\u003e, she takes on one of mankind’s most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It’s the \u003ci\u003eBook of Common Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e as seen through a looking glass—a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams’ characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for him when he’s standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he’s in line to get a shingles vaccination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, \u003ci\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49295155036464,"sku":"BDc1br","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49295155069232,"sku":"ZEc1br","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49295155102000,"sku":"ZMc1br","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/133368-c1br-Square.jpg?v=1732936867","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c1br","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}