{"product_id":"we-are-not-alone-here-paperback","title":"We Are Not Alone Here - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eO. Thiam Chin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn intricate blend of mystery and horror with a feminist take on the roles of womanhood, especially motherhood, in contemporary times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn unnamed young woman and her companion strike up a conversation in the dark in a quiet room, in the middle of nowhere. As they talk, the young woman starts to open up her life, to talk about her past and childhood, growing up in a single-parent household under poor impoverished conditions, living under the cold, steely eye of an estranged and manipulative mother who physically and emotionally abused her. The woman gradually divulges the lies and secrets that have plagued her life from a very young age, and how all of it has led her to make hard choices along the way: to be a mistress to her boss at her first job, to have a child out of wedlock, to rear a child all on her own and then to tragically lose him in a drowning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe truth becomes stranger and more complicated as the woman continues to tell her story, braiding and twisting the facts and sequence of events as she narrates, that soon reveals a long unvoiced history of pain and violence and deception, that ultimately culminates in her committing a series of horrific and terrible acts. What has seemed clear and straightforward at the start of the woman's story soon becomes a strange febrile dream that holds the woman and her companion in a complicit, unbreakable spell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO Thiam Chin is the author of three novels and six collections of short fiction. His debut novel, \u003cem\u003e Now That It's Over\u003c\/em\u003e, won the inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize in 2015. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Cincinnati Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eManoa\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eQLRS\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 158\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42732658360383,"sku":"9789815058062","price":31.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/df3e6892293a96e1a2f2874c7affc4c2.webp?v=1765133275","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/we-are-not-alone-here-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}