{"product_id":"pretend-im-your-friend-9781938126420","title":"Pretend I'm Your Friend","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sister s darkest secret is revealed at her brother s wedding. A woman with extrasensory visions accidentally gives her philandering husband her blessing. A dying mother wishes her cancer was her daughters, not hers. \"Pretend I m Your Friend\" lays bare the fear, loss, and pain of love, sex, and family life in eleven crisp, engaging, and startlingly funny, elegantly entwined stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11950082\"\u003eMb Caschetta\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Engine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938126420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1938126424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC044000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMB Caschetta is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her novel \u003ci\u003eMiracle Girls\u003c\/i\u003e (Engine Books, 2014) won The 2015 USA Best Book Award for Literary Fiction, a Gold Medal in Spiritual Books from the Independent Publisher Awards (IPPYs), and an IndieFAB 2015 Book of the Year in the LGBT category. \u003ci\u003eMiracle Girls\u003c\/i\u003e was also a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and a \u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Pick-of-the-Week, where it was hailed as \"darkly beautiful.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is the recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship and the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award. \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e called her first book of stories \u003ci\u003eLucy on the West Coast\u003c\/i\u003e (Alyson Books) \"a spectacular collection.\" Her non-fiction has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Creative Non-Fiction, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as in anthologies by The Feminist Press, The Other Press, St. Martin's, and Plume, among others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStories from \u003ci\u003ePretend I'm Your Friend\u003c\/i\u003e have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Mississippi Review, The Red Rock Review, Thieves Jargon, Ecclectica, 3: AM Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBloom, \u003c\/i\u003e among other literary journals. Select stories have also been awarded The Seattle Fiction Review Prize (winner), The Mississippi Review Fiction Prize (runner-up), and The Iowa Review Fiction Prize (finalist). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMB lives in Massachusetts with her spouse and standard poodle and is currently working on a book about being disinherited.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Engine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44696953651437,"sku":"9781938126420","price":19.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_6176378d-2450-4cb2-b024-e8fa0a6a4e23.jpg?v=1703809712","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/pretend-im-your-friend-9781938126420","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}