{"product_id":"jayber-crow","title":"Jayber Crow","description":"This is a book about Heaven, says Jayber Crow, but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell. It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow's acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe began his search as a pre-ministerial student at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with Old Grit, his profound professor of New Testament Greek. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou have been given questions to which you cannot be \u003ci\u003egiven\u003c\/i\u003e answers. You will have to live them out--perhaps a little at a time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And how long is that going to take? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e That could be a long time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I will tell you a further mystery, he said. It may take longer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWendell Berry's clear-sighted depiction of humanity's gifts--love and loss, joy and despair--is seen though his intimate knowledge of the Port William Membership.","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46609683087529,"sku":"PHBK-9781582431604","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/content_72f6374f-9ad0-4fe1-ad7d-29b54a190c91.jpg?v=1764720228","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/jayber-crow","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}