{"product_id":"have-mercy-on-us-paperback","title":"Have Mercy on Us - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisa Cupolo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"What exquisite stories these are, each of them immaculately composed, each of them powerfully transporting... This book deserves prizes.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eTim O'Brien, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the ten stories in \u003ci\u003eHave Mercy on Us\u003c\/i\u003e is an illuminating window into a human life. In the way of all the best fiction, these stories enlarge our understanding of what it means to be alive and to love, with characters who leap off the page. In this award-winning collection, the people are varied in age, race, and origin. An old man travels to a village in Kenya in an attempt to bring his estranged son home; against her mother's wishes, a young woman attends the funeral of the father she never met, hoping to forge a relationship with her eight siblings; a woman long married to a renowned artist whose infidelity is nearly blatant, takes things into her own hands in a brilliantly realized moment of independence; in an imagined, loving portrait, the writer Zora Neale Hurston is shown near the end of her life in 1948, working as a maid in a motel in Ft. Pierce, Florida. These stories are spare and romantic without being sentimental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Cupolo's\u003c\/b\u003e work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, The Idaho Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others. A native Canadian, she teaches at Chapman University and lives in Orange, California with her husband, Richard Bausch, and their daughter, Lila.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 8.49 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47244412387577,"sku":"9781646033164","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/L1BaYi9aNXQ2VEo1enVSeUJLN3JBdz09.webp?v=1768591356","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/have-mercy-on-us-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}