{"product_id":"book-fcxb","title":"Worship of Hollow Gods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWORSHIP OF HOLLOW GODS\u003c\/strong\u003e depicts the family norms, rituals, and religious routines of a Catholic, Polish, Detroit family in the 1950's. Through beautiful language, the characters step off the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cstrong\u003e WORSHIP OF HOLLOW GODS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e James Sniechowski bears witness to the world of a sensitive, nine-year-old boy, subjected to \u003cstrong\u003ethe underbelly of his Polish Catholic family in working class Detroit\u003c\/strong\u003e. The year is 1950. The family gathers for a Friday night family poker\/pinochle party. The \u003cstrong\u003eoutcome reveals a world no one ever talked about then and are forbidden to talk about now-\u003c\/strong\u003e--the unspoken, the impermissible, the reality beneath every family's practiced facade---and \u003cstrong\u003ewhat lies beneath when the front has been ripped away.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSniechowski unsparingly yet compassionately \u003cstrong\u003eevokes the temptations, trials, and tactics of the family\u003c\/strong\u003e characters while revealing the hollow gods they naively but fatefully worshipped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders, no matter where in the world, \u003cstrong\u003ewill be prompted if not pushed to confront the hollow gods that reside, like living ghosts, in the unseen of their family's way of life\u003c\/strong\u003e, the invisible that sources and shapes their beliefs and behaviors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWORSHIP OF HOLLOW GODS \u003c\/strong\u003edredges up \u003cstrong\u003efamilial bonds that grip and hold tight, unconsciously dictating our destiny. \u003c\/strong\u003eIt is story telling at its caring and compelling best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The prose is powerfully evocative\u003c\/strong\u003e, ably capturing the bewildered isolation Jim experiences in his own home: \"At nine years old, I could feel that barrenness, the draining effect of mechanical living; feel but not make sense of; feel in my body like a worm screwing itself into my every day. \u003cstrong\u003eA poignant and poetic depiction of a tumultuous childhood.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e~Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49425964728624,"sku":"BDfcxb","price":8.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/fcxb-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773391829","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-fcxb","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}