{"product_id":"there-is-only-us-zoe-ballering-9781574418804","title":"There Is Only Us: Volume 21","description":"\u003cp\u003e The eight stories of speculative fiction in \u003ci\u003eThere Is Only Us\u003c\/i\u003e explore themes of loneliness, connectedness, and selfhood. Each one is an act of intimacy--an altered world shown through the lens of a close relationship. Brothers, sisters, lovers, mothers, and daughters come together in myriad constellations, often so that one character can make a body-altering choice of extreme proportions. In a variety of forms--from a satirical retelling of Noah's Ark to a sister drama revolving around naked mole rats--\u003ci\u003eThere Is Only Us\u003c\/i\u003e presents a series of escalating scenarios, intimate and yet absurd, that ask, how much can you change and still be you? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ballering's stories bring to speculative fiction a new lightness and absurdity and a commitment to contemporary experiences of loneliness, especially among Millennials: loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic, ecological loneliness (the sense that, by the end of our lives, the earth will be barren), and the unsolvable loneliness that so many experience despite carrying around a tiny device that claims it can connect them to any human anywhere on earth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zoe Ballering\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1574418807\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781574418804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.45d","brand":"Zoe Ballering","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071645118719,"sku":"9781574418804","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c52cda9-1eae-404f-8dfe-a7b687246ebe.jpg?v=1685437325","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/there-is-only-us-zoe-ballering-9781574418804","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}