{"product_id":"ask-me-about-the-money-stories-9781968148560","title":"Ask Me About the Money: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of stories that tracks everyday moments, decisions, and complications with money. A father-and-son duo investigate a bad check. A husband and wife drive thirty miles to use a free beer coupon. One character, living in a motel, is offered unsavory work opportunities. With profound empathy, searing details, and propulsive scenes, these stories introduce situations at once simple and profound, strange and familiar-lives upturned because of a misstep, a miscalculation, or a blatant act. Money takes center stage, but these stories include a host of other themes: family and relationships, Midwestern woes, and racial identity. From railroad tracks, to cheap motels, from garage sales to cow pastures, Keith Pilapil Lesmeister tunes our hearts to the powerful frequency of money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Pilapil Lesmeister\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornerstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968148560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLesmeister, Keith Pilapil:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Keith Pilapil Lesmeister is the author of the story collection We Could've Been Happy Here. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, his work has received support from Springboard for the Arts, Anderson Center, and the Iowa Arts Council. His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, december magazine, Gettysburg Review, New Stories from the Midwest, North American Review, Redivider, Terrain, and elsewhere. He serves as fiction editor of Cutleaf and teaches at Northeast Iowa Community College.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Keith Pilapil Lesmeister \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":67804778627229,"sku":"9781968148560","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_fcaf7693-5100-45e1-81b7-af2395253ec6.jpg?v=1794382291","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/ask-me-about-the-money-stories-9781968148560","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}