{"product_id":"bodies-of-water","title":"Bodies of Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color: font-weight: font-style: italic\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color: font-weight:\u003e collects fourteen stories from a writer who has spent a lifetime paying attention.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA woman chases her ex-lover’s car through the dark streets of Vancouver. A blind carpenter receives a cupcake from a stranger who wipes his fingers one by one. A widow negotiates with an Amish carpenter to build her an ark. A Greek fisherman rescues two African migrants from the sea and then sails on, carrying them with him like ballast.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThese are stories about what we inherit and what we lose, about the grief we carry and the grace that arrives unexpectedly, about the moment when a person stands on the brink and decides — or fails to decide — that now is the right time to jump. A phlebotomist in Vancouver. A wood turner in Saxony. A yoga student in Rishikesh. A union carpenter in a wheelchair. A retired firefighter burying his ventriloquist’s dummy in a garden in Culver City, California. A guy on an oil rig in the middle of the North Atlantic.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color: font-weight:\u003ePrecise, compassionate, and often unexpectedly funny,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color: font-weight: font-style: italic\u003e Bodies of Water\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color: font-weight:\u003e is a collection about the water we swim in, the water that shapes us, and the water we are always, in one way or another, trying to cross\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grand Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67601553129776,"sku":"9781963361148","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/bodies-of-water","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}