{"product_id":"orientation-and-other-stories-9780865478534","title":"Orientation: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eBreakfasts boiled egg  the overhead hum of fluorescent lights  the midmorning coffee breakdaily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushedby a coworkers taunt  a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridgecracks appear  revealing alienation  casual cruelty  madness  and above all a simultaneous hunger for and fear of the unknown. Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters  men housebound by obesity  office temps  and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges  exceptional data entry  and an exiled dictators occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new employees first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake  the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination. Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers  whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction. Orientation is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Short Story Collections title.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647289876533,"sku":"ByrdShop_0865478538","price":24.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780865478534.jpg?v=1781691761","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/orientation-and-other-stories-9780865478534","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}