{"product_id":"the-dead-still-here-laura-valeri-9781622881802","title":"The Dead Still Here","description":"Mapping stories set in Europe and America, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Still Here\u003c\/i\u003e skillfully paces through eleven short stories about friends-with-benefits typed relationships, vicious divorces and thievery, the loss of a child, the loss of a mother, and the Coast Guard and the Navy rescuing refugees from a bad storm at sea. Laura Valeri writes one single breathtaking sentence about sex, Dear John emails, and Christmas presents in \"Liabilities of a Love Misguided\" and displays a sharp sense of paranoia based on everyone looking at the narrator, laughing, whispering in \"What They Know.\" Along with characters that are irrevocably locked in their heads, Valeri includes a guide on how to take medication in \"Prescription for Life,\" which subtly points to the other hallucinatory narratives. This collection is at once provocative and lucid, and it offers various angles of characters looking for a relationship to hold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Valeri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 162288180X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781622881802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen F. Austin University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Laura Valeri","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867086082303,"sku":"9781622881802","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de9f9923-03f2-48d7-bb80-a1fa73b55a12.jpg?v=1747453859","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dead-still-here-laura-valeri-9781622881802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}