{"product_id":"jayber-crow","title":"Jayber Crow","description":"\u003cp\u003e“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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out—perhaps a little at a time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“And how long is that going to take?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“That could be a long time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I will tell you a further mystery,” he said. “It may take longer.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Novel HeARTs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777016824089,"sku":"9781582431604","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/6283\/0617\/files\/9781582431604.jpg?v=1766000780","url":"https:\/\/novelhearts.com\/products\/jayber-crow","provider":"Novel HeARTs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}