{"product_id":"smorgasbord-hardcover","title":"Smorgasbord - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarc Joan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT DO WE OWE THE STRANGER? WHAT DO WE OWE THE DEAD?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Japanese man paints a second eye on a doll. A widow holds an injured gull to her chest and cries by the sea. A grieving child climbs a stack of pallets to send a lantern into the sky. A chess player forfeits a game he was winning. A man places three red tulips on a grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc Joan's critically acclaimed short fiction spans Geneva and San Francisco, Cornwall and Cambridge, Wales and India, the very old and the not-so-old - and the distances between the people who live in them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with delicacy and the occasional dark twist, Smorgasbord is about what we carry across borders - grief, memory, guilt, old age - and what we leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 29, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923987333427,"sku":"9781917090209","price":45.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/1ZUVJlSg8Z9781917090209.webp?v=1793828941","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/smorgasbord-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}