{"product_id":"weepers","title":"Weepers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA messianic tale about a group of professional mourners--a darkly funny novel of grief, mystery and redemption from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Delivery\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEd is a weeper. A professional weeper. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe's a card-carrying member of an eccentric union hired to cry at funerals, wakes, services and burials. It's an odd job, but his services are sorely needed these days, as the town, the region, the country as a whole has become more or less numb. No one is able to summon a shred of human emotion whatsoever. Not anymore. (What'd be the point? The world's already gone to hell.) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo there's always work for Ed and his colleagues. But all those cries can wear a man down, and the tears don't flow quite like they used to, even for a consummate pro like Ed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen one morning, a stranger comes to town. A scrawny kid with no belongings, no parents, no name, no past. And at precisely the moment of his arrival, people begin to experience something new. Something strange. An onslaught of unbidden feelings, unfamiliar feelings, \u003ci\u003etoo many\u003c\/i\u003e feelings \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA surrealist story of mourning and messiahs, deserts and droughts, cowboys and junkies, miracles and mass hysteria, the lure of despair and the solace of friendship. Peter Mendelsund's \u003ci\u003eWeepers\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel for this age: our age of anesthesia and anger.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0374619077\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780374619077\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Mendelsund, Peter\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Jun 2025)","offer_id":46080799244485,"sku":"9780374619077","price":22.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780374619077.jpg?v=1776040399","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/weepers","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}