{"product_id":"the-woods-janice-obuchowski-9781609388751","title":"The Woods: Stories","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Woods\u003c\/i\u003e explores the lives of people in a small Vermont college town and its surrounding areas--a place at the edge of the bucolic, where the land begins to shift into something untamed. In the tradition of Elizabeth Strout's \u003ci\u003eOlive Kitteridge\u003c\/i\u003e and Sherwood Anderson's \u003ci\u003eWinesburg, Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e, these stories follow people who carry private griefs but search for contentment. As they try to make sense of their worlds, grappling with problems--worried about their careers, their marriages, their children, their ambitions--they also sift through the happiness they have, and often find deep solace in the landscape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What do we find in the woods? An uplifting of spirit or a quieting of sorrow. A sense of being haunted by the past. Sometimes rougher, more violent things: abandoned quarries and feral cats, black bears, brothers caught up in an escalating war, a ghost who wishes to pass on her despair, monsters who boom with hollow ecstatic laughter. But also songbirds: the hermit thrush and the winter wren. Rushing rivers glossy with froth. A nineteenth-century inn that's somehow gotten by all these years. And far within, a vegetal twilight and constant dusk that feels outside of time. This remarkable debut illuminates the ways we all carry within ourselves aspects stark, beautiful, wild, and unknowable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janice Obuchowski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609388755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609388751\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 11\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/16\/2022","brand":"Janice Obuchowski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073030254847,"sku":"9781609388751","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be178425-3d06-4dd9-99ed-eab0f6d03da8.jpg?v=1685445388","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-woods-janice-obuchowski-9781609388751","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}