{"product_id":"the-lost-and-the-blind-paperback","title":"The Lost and the Blind - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCurtis Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Hayes has come up hard. Poverty. Chaos. Hunger. His mother a junkie. His father serving a life sentence. But as his senior year looms, Mark finds a bit of peace with his mother and her girlfriend in a farmhouse outside town. Here, he hopes to escape the upheaval that has dogged him since the day he was born, but as hard as he tries, he can't outrun his shadows. He is lost, but no more so than many of his friends, no more so than the institutions he navigates or his country as it spirals toward another bloody war. Mark doesn't know God, but as he stumbles through his long, violent night, he is guided by glimmers of kindness, the good souls who reach out to this life's lost sheep. Delivered in prose both terse and lyrical, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost and the Blind\u003c\/i\u003e presents a searing portrait of dopesick, small-town America and a young man desperate to rise above.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCurtis Smith\u003c\/b\u003e's award-winning stories and essays have appeared in over 150 literary journals, and his work has been cited by or included in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Mystery Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Spiritual Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best Small Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best Microfictions\u003c\/i\u003e, and the WW Norton anthology \u003ci\u003eNew Micro\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of six novels, five story collections, two essay collections, and a book of creative nonfiction. His last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Magpie's Return\u003c\/i\u003e, was cited by \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the 2020 Best Indie Books of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 8.54 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765255438624,"sku":"9781955062619","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fe2a9588283a644c62d354f88b4edbaa.webp?v=1780265090","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-lost-and-the-blind-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}