{"product_id":"antipodes-stories-paperback","title":"Antipodes: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHolly Goddard Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 The Story Prize Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A harried and depressed mother of three young children serves on a committee that watches over the bottomless sinkhole that has appeared in her Kentucky town. During COVID lockdown, a thirty-four-year-old gamer moves back home with his parents and is revisited by his long-forgotten childhood imaginary friend. A politician running for a state congressional seat and a young mother, who share the same set of fears about the future, cross paths but don't fully understand one another. A woman attends a party at the home of a fellow church parishioner and discovers she is on the receiving end of a sales pitch for a doomsday prepper. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These stories and more contemplate our current reality with both frankness and hard-earned hopefulness, realism and fabulism, tackling parenthood, environment, and the absurd-but-unavoidable daily toil of worrying about mundane matters when we've entered \"an era of unknowability, of persistent strangeness.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHolly Goddard Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is author of \u003ci\u003eGirl Trouble, The Next Time You See Me\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Line.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697890562111,"sku":"9781609388294","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/070a0b00c6f9240685e54324360752b1.webp?v=1765009729","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/antipodes-stories-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}