{"id":3505,"date":"2013-08-29T18:57:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=3505"},"modified":"2022-12-08T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:18:16","slug":"in-the-mouth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/in-the-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Mouth: Stories and Novellas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/In-the-Mouth-Cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2918\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/In-the-Mouth-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"In the Mouth Cover\" width=\"1800\" height=\"2700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 275 pages \u2022 18.95<br \/>\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-884800-82-5<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu\/Cart2\/Chicagobook?ISBN=9781884800825&amp;PRESS=fourway\" data-color=\" data-color-hover=\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/column]<\/p>\n<h1><em>In the Mouth: Stories and Novellas<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Eileen Pollack<\/h2>\n<p>Taking on the hidden surfaces and interior worlds beneath any family unit,\u00a0<em>In the Mouth<\/em>, is witty, affecting, and irresistible. Pollack shows us how secrets that might sunder a family often become its strongest connection. Whether in the form of an unopened safe a family is selling in a yard sale, or a son realizing his father is guilty of murder, these stories investigate the nerve endings of human relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Pollack writes about times of tragedy and transition insightfully, aware of their everyday quality and of their gravity.\u00a0<em>In the Mouth<\/em>\u00a0is a window onto the amazing tenderness and irrationality of human life.<\/p>\n<p>One story, \u201cThe Bris,\u201d has been selected for\u00a0<em>The Best American Short-Stories 2008<\/em>\u00a0(Ed. Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/eileenpollack\/\" data-color=\"#ffffff\" data-color-hover=\"#efefef\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\">About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;] paper \u2022 275 pages \u2022 18.95 ISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-884800-82-5 Add to Cart [\/column] In the Mouth: Stories and Novellas Eileen Pollack Taking on the hidden surfaces and interior worlds beneath any family unit,\u00a0In the Mouth, is witty, affecting, and irresistible. Pollack shows us how secrets that might sunder a family often become its strongest connection. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3505","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18708,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3505\/revisions\/18708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}