{"product_id":"antipodes-stories-9781609388294","title":"Antipodes: Stories","description":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Goddard Jones, Holly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609388294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224","brand":"Holly Goddard Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39735602348107,"sku":"9781609388294","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_ca1aa0c7-8318-469a-b5d5-8161428fafc7.jpg?v=1649849509","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/antipodes-stories-9781609388294","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}