{"product_id":"american-tales-9781664169463","title":"American Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy American Tales are four novellas, longer than short stories, shorter than novels. I tried to capture in them experiences centering on four different stages of life; childhood, teen years, early adulthood and middle-age. Each story has its own ordeal, or trauma. A young boy just shy of puberty is stricken with quadriplegia from falling off a swing set. A teenage basketball player copes with severe acne and adolescent insecurity. A young married man struggles against a mother-in-law bent on breaking up his marriage. A maintenance worker loses a beloved wife in an auto accident, and having given up any interest in the possibility of another woman entering his life, suddenly falls passionately in love with a Russian immigrant and young mother who professes to hate men, until she recognizes a pure, unconditional love offered from an unexpected source. A novella may take more than one sitting to read, but it can possess both the sudden revelatory impact of a short-story and the grandeur of a novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53532199944471,"sku":null,"price":499.23,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9781664169463.jpg?v=1781247201","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/ur\/products\/american-tales-9781664169463","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}