{"product_id":"at-the-edge-of-the-masatsugu-ono-9781949641288","title":"At the Edge of the Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Balances wonder and disquiet with incomparable grace and precision...Ono continues to captivate.\" --Bryan Washington, author of \u003ci\u003eMemorial\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an unnamed foreign country, a family of three is settling into a house at the edge of the woods. But something is off. A sound, at first like coughing and then like laughter, emanates from the nearby forest. Fantastical creatures, it is said, live out there in a castle where feudal lords reigned and Resistance fighters fell. When the mother, fearing another miscarriage, returns to her family's home to give birth to a second child, father and son are left to their own devices in rural isolation. Haunted by the ever-present woods, they look on as the TV flashes with floods and processions of refugees. The boy brings a mysterious half-naked old woman home, but before the father can make sense of her presence, she disappears. A mail carrier with gnashing teeth visits to deliver nothing but gossip of violence. A tree stump in the yard refuses to die, no matter how generously the poison is applied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn allegory for alienation and climate catastrophe unlike any other, \u003cem\u003eAt the Edge of the Woods\u003c\/em\u003e is a psychological tale where myth and fantasy are not the dominion of childhood innocence but the poison fruit borne of the paranoia and violence of contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Masatsugu Ono\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949641287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949641288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Lines Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2022","brand":"Masatsugu Ono","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051383091455,"sku":"9781949641288","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fde8a233-216d-40b7-b9ec-52540155c5b4.jpg?v=1685012766","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/at-the-edge-of-the-masatsugu-ono-9781949641288","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}