{"product_id":"9781618731326-telling-the-map","title":"Telling the Map","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStories\u003cbr\u003eStories that sometimes begin in the hills of Kentucky and head out into complicated and sometimes hopeful futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are ten stories here including one readers have waited ten long years for: in new novel-la \u003ci\u003eThe Border State\u003c\/i\u003e Rowe revisits the world of his much-lauded story \u003ci\u003eThe Voluntary State\u003c\/i\u003e. Competitive cyclists twins Michael and Maggie have trained all their lives to race internationally. One thing holds them back: their mother who years before crossed the border  into Tennessee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Christopher Rowe:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRowe’s stories are the kind of thing you want on a cold, winter’s night when the fire starts burning low. Terrific.”\u003cbr\u003eJustina Robson (\u003ci\u003eGlorious Angels\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs good as he is now, he’ll keep getting better. Read these excellent stories, and see what I mean.”Jack Womack (\u003ci\u003eGoing, Going, Gone\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRowe’s work might remind you of that of Andy Duncan. Both exemplify an archetypically Southern viewpoint on life’s mysteries, a worldview that admits marvels in the most common of circumstances and narrates those unreal intrusions in a kind of downhome manner that belies real sophistication.” \u003ci\u003eAsimov’s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs smooth and heady as good Kentucky bourbon.” \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Rowe\u003c\/b\u003e’s stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon awards, frequently reprinted, translated into a half-dozen languages, praised by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and long listed in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writer’s Studio. Rowe and his wife Gwenda Bond co-write the Supernormal Sleuthing Series for children, and reside in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55418587447670,"sku":"9781618731326","price":14.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28427978.jpg?v=1742861494","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781618731326-telling-the-map","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}