{"product_id":"small-rain-1","title":"Small Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the PEN Oakland\/Josephine Miles Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, and more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Recommended Read of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA medical crisis brings one man close to death--and to love, art, and beauty--in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value--art, memory, poetry, music, care--are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. \u003ci\u003eSmall Rain\u003c\/i\u003e surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51721553412407,"sku":"9781250397508","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/imageloader_64ec56a5-b6fe-4dad-8772-44ff20caa9ce.jpg?v=1772058056","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/small-rain-1","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}