{"product_id":"the-home-jar-stories","title":"Home Jar: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Zafris is a critically acclaimed writer because of the highly distinctive, piercing intelligence that underlies her works.\u003c\/b\u003e Her gifts accumulate in a vision that somehow combines just the right amount of irony, subtle humor, and compassion for characters you won't see anywhere else in contemporary fiction. Those characters are emotionally all over the map too: resolute, sympathetic, and indelible-their stories can be laugh-out-loud funny one minute and bittersweet the next.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Home Jar\u003c\/i\u003e, Zafris reconfirms herself to be among the keenest observers of the human condition around. This is her first short story collection since the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe People I Know\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and her most famous work, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e notable novel \u003ci\u003eThe Metal Shredders\u003c\/i\u003e. Zafris's very loyal following of readers will herald \u003ci\u003eThe Home Jar\u003c\/i\u003e as a major event in American letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32147261554771,"sku":"","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780875806884_d3c54b04-8748-4e75-bc1e-0432d6f9c288.jpg?v=1778907683","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-home-jar-stories","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}