{"product_id":"ninetynine-stories-of-god","title":"NinetyNine 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 Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankinds most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being.This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. Its the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glassa 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 Williamss 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 Hes standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where hes in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45888168919238,"sku":"DADAX1947793179","price":27.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/61ntJEL9mmL.jpg?v=1779955175","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/ninetynine-stories-of-god","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}