{"product_id":"catapult-stories-9781946448057","title":"Catapult: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Fridlund writes of families, marriage, and childhood as if our received wisdom--what we thought we knew about life and love and family--needs reparation. This is fiction as excavation, peeling away the machinery of people and converting it to narrative. Fridlund shines a spotlight on what gets hidden and unreported, and the result can be overwhelming--cutting and funny and filled with difficult truth.\" --Ben Marcus, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flame Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fridlund has already proven herself to be a singular talent.\" --NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Ben Marcus as winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e follows Emily Fridlund's acclaimed debut novel \u003ci\u003eHistory of Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e. Sometimes calculating, at other times bewildered, \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e's characters orbit around each other, enacting a deeply human tragicomedy of wit, misunderstanding, and loss. With dexterous, atmospheric, and darkly comic prose, Fridlund conjures worlds where longing is open-ended, intentions misfire, and the line between comfort and cruelty is often difficult to discern. This is a gripping collection, unsettling as much in its familiarity as in its near-gothic strangeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Fridlund\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of journals, including \u003ci\u003eBoston Review, Zyzzyva, Five Chapters, New Orleans Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Fridlund's first novel, \u003ci\u003eHistory of Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e (Atlantic Monthly Press), was a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and a #1 Indie Next pick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Fridlund: Emily Fridlund's first novel, \u003ci\u003eHistory of Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017), was a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and a #1 Indie Next Pick. Fridlund grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBen Marcus: Ben Marcus is the author of four books of fiction, most recently \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Sea: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (Knopf, 2014). His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times, GQ, Salon, Time, Conjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857329754386,"sku":"9781946448057","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5335c7de-e875-4484-b2a0-0be3df4569ef.jpg?v=1737528121","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/catapult-stories-9781946448057","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}