{"product_id":"the-running-trees-amber-mcmillan-9781773101699","title":"The Running Trees: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction) and Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction\u003cbr\u003eA striking original, deftly humorous collection of stories that considers the quest for truth: how we come to it or alternatively avoid it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fervently comic debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Running Trees\u003c\/i\u003e leads readers into a series of conversations -- through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation -- to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe relationship between two siblings disintegrates after one asks the other for \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e pen; a professor and his former student get drinks years after a \"romantic\" encounter; a book club meets only to find that they have wildly different opinions about a new memoir about their town; and a long-haired feline contemplates existence and consciousness while his cohabitant licks his own butthole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhimsical, unconventional, humorous, and always pitch-perfect, \u003ci\u003eThe Running Trees\u003c\/i\u003e explores how we desperately try to communicate with each other amid the gaps in meaning we create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amber McMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1773101692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773101699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Amber McMillan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43982055997695,"sku":"9781773101699","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8cb1786-b46c-4b7f-b58c-8b992a602303.jpg?v=1683259011","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-running-trees-amber-mcmillan-9781773101699","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}