{"product_id":"9781932511918-this-is-not-your-city","title":"This Is Not Your City","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 11 darkly comic stories, women isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace.\u003cbr\u003eBest Books of 2011, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e' A Year in Reading pick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEleven women confront dramas both every-day and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks’ \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not Your City\u003c\/i\u003e. In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace—they have no other choice. A Russian mail-order bride in Finland is rendered silent by her dislocation and loss of language; the mother of a severely disabled boy writes him postcards he'll never read on a cruise ship held hostage by pirates; and an Iowa actuary wanders among the reincarnations of those she's known in her 127 lives. Horrocks’ women find no simple escapes, and their acts of faith and acts of imagination in making do are as shrewd as they are surprising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55420827828598,"sku":"9781932511918","price":14.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33663772.jpg?v=1748970392","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781932511918-this-is-not-your-city","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}