{"product_id":"a-prayer-for-owen-meany","title":"A Prayer for Owen Meany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJULY 12, 2026 DEAN'S FORUM BOOK AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world.” —STEPHEN KING, Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany, one of literary fiction’s most unforgettable characters, believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51390728110375,"sku":"008921","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/7419\/1143\/files\/9780062204097.webp?v=1778694664","url":"https:\/\/jaxcathedralbooks.org\/products\/a-prayer-for-owen-meany","provider":"St. John's Cathedral Bookstore \u0026 Gift Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}