{"product_id":"praying-drunk-stories-questions-paperback","title":"Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions - 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\u003eKyle Minor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide and crying like a baby.--Daniel Handler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe characters in \u003ci\u003ePraying Drunk\u003c\/i\u003e speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken glass; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails to fend off his bully. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and spiritually alive throughout the untamable turbulence of their worlds. In a masterful blend of fiction, autobiography, and surrealism, Kyle Minor shows us that the space between fearlessness and terror is often very small. Long before \u003ci\u003ePraying Drunk\u003c\/i\u003e reaches its plaintive, pitch-perfect end, Minor establishes himself again and again as one of the most talented younger writers in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKyle Minor is the winner of the 2012 \u003ci\u003eIowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e Prize for Short Fiction, the Tara M. Kroger Prize for Short Fiction, and the author of \u003ci\u003eIn Devil's Territory\u003c\/i\u003e (Dzanc Books, 2008). He is also a three-time honoree in the annual \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e writing contest, and was named one of Random House's Best New Voices of 2006. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Salon.com, Best American Mystery Stories 2008, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eForty Stories: New Voices from Harper Perennial\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Independent Publisher Book Awards (2014)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47248872374521,"sku":"9781936747634","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/L1lFVU9aYzZiT0s5TENDNUdKaGhoZz09.webp?v=1768641130","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/praying-drunk-stories-questions-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}