{"product_id":"vulture-gold-micah-dean-hicks-9781496248251","title":"Vulture Gold: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Raz\/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to a dark country of sadness and wonder. Where a wedding dress turns a reluctant bride into a flock of birds, and families put on their wolf coats before devouring one another. These growling, prickly-feathered stories blur the lines between human and animal, living and dead. Teenage spirits are condemned to drive around their hometown forever. Five brothers learn that they were once crows. The bank hires a man to go into foreclosed houses and kill their monsters. Two sisters find an oven that can resurrect the dead. Plumbers kidnap mermaids trapped in a city sewer system. A mockingbird sings a woman's sins. A boy with a single swan's wing yearns to fly. And watching over all of them is the queen of the dead, who sends her vulture men to scavenge the bones. The characters in these modern fairy tales challenge expectations and norms in a dark and magical shared world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Micah Dean Hicks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496248252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496248251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Micah Dean Hicks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520112898303,"sku":"9781496248251","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9b079cb-aca3-4451-8e83-a529cd36918e.jpg?v=1778740825","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vulture-gold-micah-dean-hicks-9781496248251","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}