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Manual Transmission
$15.00
When a restless thirty-something buys a used car, he doesn’t know how to drive, his new instructor turns out to be a link to his late mother’s past. Between sputtering engines and small-town wisdom, he learns that motion isn’t just about speed—it’s about grace, patience, and learning when to let go.
Witty, tender, and quietly redemptive, Manual Transmission reminds us that the hardest thing to master isn’t the clutch—it’s forgiveness.
Description
From The Art of Almost Collection
In The Art of Almost Collection, J. J. Jonas captures the hilarious and heartbreaking contradictions of the quarter-life years — when love, career, and identity are all under renovation. From a young man learning stick shift from his mother’s first love (Manual Transmission) to a divorced couple sharing custody of a dog (The Custody of Mondays), to a thrift shopper who finds grace tucked inside an old blazer (Thirty and Thrifty), these stories shimmer with humor, vulnerability, and quiet revelation.Wry, hopeful, and deeply human.
Other short stories in the collection include:
- The Couch on Craigslist
- The Custody of Mondays
- The Latte Rebelllion
- Manual Transmission
- The Meeting that Changed Nothing (and Everything)
- The Neighbor’s Garden
- Performance Review
- Return to Sender
- The Spare Key
- Thirty an Thrifty
Titles shown above in The Art of Almost Collection are available seperately. See “Prose Short Stories” in the Online Store.
