{"product_id":"pythons-kiss-stories-9780063375000","title":"Python's Kiss: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt was as though I was chosen--marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWRITTEN OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, Louise Erdrich's magnificent story collection features a range of characters--a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone. A man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe--an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter--these stories offer an oppor­tunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America's most important writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louise Erdrich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063375000","brand":"Ripon Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44447914328109,"sku":"9780063375000","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/0501\/1245\/files\/img_45f06b30-9c60-4fd7-8553-25475c7af1c3.jpg?v=1766813399","url":"https:\/\/riponbookstore.com\/products\/pythons-kiss-stories-9780063375000","provider":"Ripon Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}