{"product_id":"fire-sermon-jamie-quatro-9780802128980","title":"Fire Sermon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"startlingly original\" novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eI Want to Show You More\u003c\/i\u003e offers \"a profound, and profoundly strange, meditation on desire\" (Claire Dederer, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie Quatro's remarkable debut story collection, \u003ci\u003eI Want to Show You More\u003c\/i\u003e, announced her as \"a writer of great originality\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). Now, with her first novel, Quatro delivers a portrait of female desire and the complexities of a marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarried twenty years to Thomas and living in Nashville with their two children, Maggie is drawn ineluctably into a passionate affair while still fiercely committed to her husband and family. What begins as a platonic exchange between writer Maggie and poet James, gradually transforms into an emotional and erotically-charged bond that challenges Maggie's sense of loyalty and morality, drawing her into the depths of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing an array of narrative techniques and written in spare, elegant prose, Jamie Quatro gives us a compelling account of one woman's emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual yearnings--unveiling the impulses and contradictions that reside in us all. \u003ci\u003eFire Sermon\u003c\/i\u003e, \"full of vivid, mercurial prose, breathes new life into [its] subject and sets it gloriously ablaze\" (\u003ci\u003eClaire Luchette, O Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50959881961665,"sku":"9780802128980","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9780802128980.jpg?v=1794609023","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/fire-sermon-jamie-quatro-9780802128980","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}