{"product_id":"a-questionable-shape-9781953387493","title":"A Questionable Shape","description":"Mazoch discovers an unreturned movie envelope, smashed windows, and a pool of blood in his father's house: the man has gone missing. So he creates a list of his father's haunts and asks Vermaelen to help track him down. \u003cp\u003eHowever, hurricane season looms over Baton Rouge, threatening to wipe out any undead not already contained and eliminate all hope of ever finding Mazoch's father. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBennett Sims turns typical zombie fare on its head to deliver a wise and philosophical rumination on the nature of memory and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBennett Sims\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOther Minds and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), the novel \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Questionable Shape\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2013), which received the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award, and the story collection \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Dialogues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2017), winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19 and named a best book of 2017 by \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society Fellowship. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Electric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Tin House\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZoetrope: All-Story\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in the \u003ci\u003ePushcart Prize Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. He has taught at Bard College, Grinnell College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614776398098,"sku":"9781953387493","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b314922-dc66-4286-92b6-9a8b5f878a9a.jpg?v=1765371147","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-questionable-shape-9781953387493","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}