{"product_id":"damned-if-i-do-stories","title":"Damned If I Do: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eDamned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed car chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets, and a sexual-identity problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePercival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirizing and celebrating the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Novel Bloom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50862880063794,"sku":"9781555974114","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0919\/9714\/3346\/files\/9781555974114.jpg?v=1769109206","url":"https:\/\/thenovelbloom.com\/products\/damned-if-i-do-stories","provider":"The Novel Bloom","version":"1.0","type":"link"}