{"product_id":"ones-who-dont-say-they-love-you-stories","title":"Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuffin, Maurice Carlos\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of raucous stories that offer a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e“vibrant and true mosaic” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof New Orleans, from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecritically acclaimed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eauthor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Cast a Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. In \"Beg Borrow Steal,\" a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after just coming home from prison; in \"Ghetto University,\" a couple struggling financially turns to crime after hitting rock bottom; in \"Before I Let You Go,\" a woman who's been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home; in \"Fast Hands, Fast Feet,\" an Army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge; in \"Mercury Forges,\" a flash fiction piece among several in the collection, a group of men hurriedly make their way to a home where an elderly gentleman lives, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does; and in the title story, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese stories are intimate invitations to hear, witness, and imagine lives at once regional but largely universal, and undeniably New Orleanian.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStory Locale:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew Orleans, LA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication History:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne World HC 8\/21\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43818017325289,"sku":"9780593133415","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/products\/9780593133415_ee4ee.jpg?v=1665945823","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/ones-who-dont-say-they-love-you-stories","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}