{"product_id":"short-story-press-presents-sandys-mended-heart-9781648911330","title":"Short Story Press Presents Sandy's Mended Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Norah Crowley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hot Methods, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Hot Methods, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis story follows Sandy, a 19-year-old woman, as she makes the difficult transition from living in an insular religious community to \"outside\" life in a college town. Sandy struggles with: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - Living alone when she has always been surrounded by a close family;\u003cbr\u003e - Meeting different types of people when she has always been in a small community;\u003cbr\u003e - Making her way with new people who don't think or act like those at home--she has to figure out how they think and what they actually mean by what they say and how they act;\u003cbr\u003e - Meeting men who live and work in environments - a college campus, a military base--that are the total opposites of the community she has known all her life;\u003cbr\u003e - Dealing with her need to find love, and hopefully a marriage, in a new world, without the guidelines of her strict community or the oversight of her family;\u003cbr\u003e - Falling in love with a man who is so totally different from her father, brothers, cousins and all the men she has known in her life, and in fact is a soldier, someone whom her pacifist religious community would find totally unacceptable;\u003cbr\u003e - Finding a church home and a place where she can live with her strong religious convictions even though she does not totally accept the limitations of her original church;\u003cbr\u003e - Coping with love and loss, putting lessons of forgiveness into practice, and picking up the pieces of a broken heart without becoming bitter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46455227482263,"sku":"9781648911330","price":1841.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781648911330.webp?v=1769174491","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/short-story-press-presents-sandys-mended-heart-9781648911330","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}