{"product_id":"9781941411193-you-should-pity-us-instead","title":"You Should Pity Us Instead","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStories\u003cbr\u003eDebut story collection explores love in its many guisesfamily, romance, friendshipthrough the lens of religion, international conflict, and complicated relationships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Amy Gustine's \u003ci\u003eYou Should Pity Us Instead \u003c\/i\u003eis a devastating, funny, and astonishingly frank collection of stories. Gustine can be brutally honest about the murky calculations, secret dreams and suppressed malice to which most of us never admit, not even to ourselves.\"—Karen Russell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eYou Should Pity Us Instead \u003c\/i\u003eis an unbroken spell from first story to last, despite the enormous range of subjects and landscapes, sufferings and joys it explores.\"—Laura Kasischke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Amy Gustine's stories cross impossible borders both physical and moral: a mother looking for her kidnapped son sneaks into Gaza, an Ellis Island inspector mourning his lost love plays God at the boundary between old world and new. Brave, essential, thrilling, each story in \u003ci\u003eYou Should Pity Us Instead \u003c\/i\u003etakes us to those places we've never dared visit before.\"—Ben Stroud\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Should Pity Us Instead \u003c\/i\u003eexplores some of our toughest dilemmas: the cost of Middle East strife at its most intimate level, the likelihood of God considered in day-to-day terms, the moral stakes of family obligations, and the inescapable fact of mortality. Amy Gustine exhibits an extraordinary generosity toward her characters, instilling them with a thriving, vivid presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Gustine\u003c\/b\u003e's short fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other places. She lives in Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55420599271798,"sku":"9781941411193","price":14.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28240198.jpg?v=1742884232","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781941411193-you-should-pity-us-instead","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}