{"product_id":"big-of-you-9781771966924","title":"Big of You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn these nine stories, Elise Levine illuminates the aspirations of women and men (and one sassy millennia-old being) as they sift through the midden of their regrets, friendships, and marriages, and seek fresher ways of inhabiting older selves.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo young women hitchhike around Europe, a lurid secret between them. A team in space is left reeling after a colleague's unexpected death. Ambitious brothers take to the skies in an aerostat in 19th-century Paris. \u003cem\u003eBig of Yo\u003c\/em\u003eu contains stories of real and fantastical life, each with its own distinctive voice and wild vocabulary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt turns playful, blistering, unabashed, these stories examine the nuanced, kaleidoscopic dimensions of character, of people driven by ambition yet contending with the hauntings of the past. Spanning various settings and time periods, \u003cem\u003eBig of You\u003c\/em\u003e captures the everyday and the extraordinary in collisions soaring and earthy, exuberant and visceral.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElise Levine\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eSay This: Two Novellas\u003c\/em\u003e, the story collection \u003cem\u003eThis Wicked Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e, and the novel \u003cem\u003eBlue Field\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlackbird\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, and five times in \u003cem\u003eBest Canadian Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Baltimore, where she teaches in the MA in Writing program at Johns Hopkins University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635474366738,"sku":"9781771966924","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3ab92c96-81a8-4364-ba67-719d19eb88c8.jpg?v=1759238148","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/big-of-you-9781771966924","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}