{"product_id":"a-registry-of-my-passage-upon-the-earth","title":"A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Pulitzer Prize Finalist: This collection of moving short stories is \"a treasure trove of lush scene setting in faraway times and places\" (Alexis Burling, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories--among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner--cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile's depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, these are tales of ecstasy, epiphany, and what the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e called the \"struggle for survival . . . hand to hand, word to word,\" by \"one of the finest prose stylists in American fiction.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Library Journal Best Book of 2020","brand":"Little, Brown Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52317743186136,"sku":"9780316477628","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0369\/4552\/files\/imageloader_0312555a-01fe-4586-bc65-8280d39b3d31.jpg?v=1787949819","url":"https:\/\/bigredbooks.shop\/products\/a-registry-of-my-passage-upon-the-earth","provider":"Big Red Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}