{"product_id":"mary-pain","title":"Mary Pain","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary PainS Hit Rock Bottom With Nothing Left To Lose  But SheS Also Absolutely Free.Mary Pain Might Just Be The Patron Saint Of Second Chances. Unemployed And All Out Of Options, She Buys A OneWay Bus Ticket To The DeadEnd Town She Grew Up In. Time Stands Still ThereAll The Same People Still Telling The Same Old Gossip SheS Been Running From For Ages. Back In Her Childhood Home, She Needs To Find A Way To Save The House From Foreclosure, Care For Her Ailing Grandfather, And Make Peace With Her MotherS Ghost, Whose Telephone Calls Still Come In On The Old Kitchen Landline.With The Odds Stacked Against Her, Mary Pain DoesnT Let Her MidLife Rut Keep Her Down: She Picks Up Men For Midnight Trysts In The Park, And Remains Open To Deepening Connections With Childhood Friends, New Lovers, And Precocious Altar Boys.Lola LorenteS Slick Black Inkwork Feels Sophisticated And Voluptuous, And Her Rendering Of Townsfolk And Their Customs Is A Sensorial Delight. Her Devoted Attention To Fabric Textures, Body Shapes, And OneOfAKind Faces Brings This Cast Of Oddballs And Weirdos, Sometimes Verging On The Grotesque, Fully To Life.Translated From The Spanish By Andrea Rosenberg, LorenteS English Debut Is A Sorrowful Yet Hopeful Portrait Of A Young Adult At A Crossroads In LifeA Quintessential Loser Looking For Meaning And Redemption In A Town Full Of Ghosts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47958303932661,"sku":"DADAX1770468536","price":42.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/91BLFLr5QLL.jpg?v=1775570975","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/mary-pain","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}