{"product_id":"mink-river","title":"Mink River","description":"Like Dylan Thomas' \"Under Milk Wood\" and Sherwood Anderson's \"Winesburg, Ohio, \" Brian Doyle's stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people. \u003cp\u003eIn a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a policeman addicted to Puccini, a philosophizing crow, beer and berries. An expedition is mounted, a crime committed, and there's an unbelievably huge picnic on the football field. Babies are born. A car is cut in half with a saw. A river confesses what it's thinking. . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the tale of a town, written in a distinct and lyrical voice, and readers will close the book more than a little sad to leave the village of Neawanaka, on the wet coast of Oregon, beneath the hills that used to boast the biggest trees in the history of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brian Doyle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52103058391341,"sku":"BS-8XD-715853","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/9780870715853-HD.jpg?v=1780252682","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/mink-river","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}