{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"The Goodbye Process","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/the-goodbye-process","description":"In this arresting debut collection of short stories, Mary Jones uses her distinctive, exacting voice to examine the painful ways we say goodbye. With satisfying depth and mouth-dropping details, these stories will push you out of your comfort zone and ignite intense emotions surrounding love and loss. Grief unites us all, as Mary\u0026#39;s stories illustrate and exhume. A woman camps out on the porch of an ex-lover who has barricaded himself inside his house; a fatherless preteen girl gets caught shoplifting and then finds herself in grave danger; a widow moves back to her hometown and befriends a college student; a Los Angeles real estate agent falls for a woman who helps him detach from years of dramatic plastic surgery; a man hires a professional mourner to ensure his wife\u0026#39;s funeral is a success. The stories gathered in this collection are dark, stunning, original, and beautifully rendered. The Goodbye Process will pack a punch, just the way grief does--knocking us off our feet.","author_name":"Mary      Jones","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/mary-jones-2f450a2b-8bc6-4a58-9060-b6deb75bd9e1","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/31640694/7368aca00cb4dd058d58a5c74b01c6b7d13bf44b.jpeg","thumbnail_width":333,"thumbnail_height":500}