{"product_id":"antipodes-holly-goddard-jones-9781609388294","title":"Antipodes: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e2022 The Story Prize Longlist\u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Holly Goddard Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609388291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609388294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/20\/2022","brand":"Holly Goddard Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981893566719,"sku":"9781609388294","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_26d32d57-19bf-4949-9291-b804b3db6206.jpg?v=1683258116","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/antipodes-holly-goddard-jones-9781609388294","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}