{"product_id":"when-everything-went-absurd-camellia-yang-9798186573821","title":"When Everything Went Absurd","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou know less than you think you do. That's the only real premise of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man builds a device that talks his wife's cancer back into remembering it belongs to her body, and it buys her three years the doctors never promised. That's the opening story, and every one after it works the same way: something you'd stopped questioning, such as gravity, memory, a poem, your own reflexes, and then it turns out to have been lying to you the whole time, quietly, for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen stories move between a haunted manuscript, a Roman senate that never happened and shouldn't have, and a memory lab where a scientist can't tell if he's grieving or malfunctioning. Some are close to hard science fiction. Some are imagining the alternative history. None of them explains themselves before they're ready to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf \u003ci\u003eExhalation\u003c\/i\u003e by Ted Chiang left you a little unsteady on your feet, or you've missed short fiction that trusts you to keep up on your own - start here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Camellia Yang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798186573821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d","brand":"Camellia Yang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174347317503,"sku":"9798186573821","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-everything-went-absurd-camellia-yang-9798186573821","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}