{"product_id":"small-holes-in-the-silence","title":"Small Holes in the Silence","description":"This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel \u003ci\u003eTu\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e The feast of stories is varied- urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary.\u003cbr\u003e An elderly woman, whose husband has died, gathers firewood on the beach while the appliances in her house fall to bits one by one. Willie falls in love with a statue.\u003cbr\u003e Great-grandmother reveals how she chose her husband-to-be both of them.\u003cbr\u003e Rona curses the Moon.\u003cbr\u003e Petina tells Raycharles she's looking for a father for her baby.\u003cbr\u003e The thread that runs through all the stories, though, is Grace's huge sympathy for the underdog and the perspective of the outsider. The world she depicts is often a stark and unsentimental place, in which people struggle against ageing, rejection, violence and betrayal.\u003cbr\u003e Also available as an eBook\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Small Holes in the Silence","offer_id":46288704536773,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-14-302099-8.jpg?v=1780035004","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/small-holes-in-the-silence","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}