{"product_id":"ash-tuesday-1","title":"Ash Tuesday","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAsh Tuesday\u003c\/h1\u003eAriadne Blayde,Ariadne Blayde\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: April Gloaming Publishing\u003cbr\u003eMarch 22 2022\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781953932099\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1953932096\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003eIn New Orleans, the dead talk and the living listen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiving ghost tours on the decaying streets of the French Quarter isn't exactly a high-profile career, but the guides at Spirits of Yore Haunted Tours are too strange and troubled to do anything else. They call themselves Quarter Rats, a group of outcasts and dreamers and goths who gather in hole-in-the-wall bars to bicker, spin yarns, and search for belonging in the wee hours of the night after the tourists have staggered home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the ghost stories they tell, their own haunted lives come into focus. Like the city they call home, these tour guides are messy with contradiction: they suffer joyfully, live morbidly, and sin to find salvation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving together real New Orleans folklore with the lives of eleven unforgettably vibrant characters, \u003cem\u003eAsh Tuesday \u003c\/em\u003eis a love letter to America's last true bohemia and the people, both dead and living, who keep its heart beating. With her debut, Blayde has carved out a deep and uber-readable interpretation of what it means to live, love, and grieve in New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"There's something about New Orleans. Maybe you can trace it to Latin America or the Caribbean or maybe not, maybe you can't define it at all. The divine? The diabolical? I don't know what to call it. But there's magic, here.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390649958445,"sku":"WHS-0b17b83d44b047e4867dbb73804cbb09","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_baaef2f0-fff1-43b6-b0fa-066606e6d94d.jpg?v=1787345794","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/ash-tuesday-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}