{"product_id":"book-hb6q","title":"The Book of (More) Delights","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights\u003c\/i\u003e and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ross Gay’s essays have been called “exquisite” (Tracy K. Smith), “imperative” (the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), and “brilliant” (Ada Limón). Now, in this new collection of genre-defying pieces, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “ubiquitous, nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For his many fans eagerly awaiting this new volume and for readers who have enjoyed the works of Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Zadie Smith, and Rebecca Solnit, Gay once again offers us “literature that feels as fluent and familiar as a chat with a close friend” (the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eThe Book of (More) Delights\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection to savor and share.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49348530733360,"sku":"BDhb6q","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49348530766128,"sku":"ZEhb6q","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/433427-hb6q-Square.jpg?v=1734225947","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hb6q","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}