{"product_id":"pythons-kiss-stories","title":"Python's Kiss: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Louise Erdrich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3\/24\/2026, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9780063375000\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Here readers will find [Erdrich's] characteristic mix of sympathetic eccentrics, her knack for crafting compelling plots only polished and sharpened by the shorter form. And expect the occasional speculative leap, too -- see: \"Domain,\" with its wry glimpse of the digital afterlife that wouldn't have felt out of place in an episode of \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These profound and resplendent stories are shaped by wit, artistry, and wisdom as Erdrich traces the weave of life that intricately meshes humans with each other, animals, earth, sky, and spirit.\" --\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (Starred Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise Erdrich\u003c\/strong\u003e, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52081559568667,"sku":"Python's Kiss","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/91PK7HS5dWL._SL1500.jpg?v=1776726099","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/pythons-kiss-stories","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}