{"product_id":"9781956046335-god-disease","title":"God-Disease","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Manuel Muñoz.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImagine a space where cities and municipalities are delineated only by letters. A place in flux, a freewheeling confluence that does not commit to being American, Korea, or even Korean American. This is where \u003ci\u003eGod-Disease\u003c\/i\u003e takes place. Strange things happen here. Identities warp and shift; sometimes they vanish altogether. In the titular story, a museum insect curator returns to her birth town, J Municipality, feeling empty and searching for answers to her mother’s absence; was it insanity that plagued her, or was it shin-byeong—god-disease? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEqual parts Southern Korean Gothic and slipstream, the collection is a meditation on language, identity, and names, and how deceptively fragile they can be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57448725315958,"sku":"9781956046335","price":13.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33801554.jpg?v=1773236496","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781956046335-god-disease","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}