{"product_id":"dead-girls-and-other-stories-9781945814334","title":"Dead Girls and Other Stories","description":"Geminder's book showcases an acute sensitivity to worlds both inside and out. There's real delicacy to the craft but underneath all the skill is a shaking sense of purpose, and a great love of the brokenness and beauty of humanity. This is a substantive, memorable debut. \u003cbr\u003e--Aimee Bender, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Color Master\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake\u003c\/i\u003e With lyric artistry and emotional force, Emily Geminder's debut collection charts a vivid constellation of characters fleeing their own stories. A teenage runaway and her mute brother seek salvation in houses, buses, the backseats of cars. Preteen girls dial up the ghosts of fat girls. A crew of bomber pilots addresses the sparks of villagers below. In Cambodia, four young women confuse themselves with the ghost of a dead reporter. And from India to New York to Phnom Penh, dead girls both real and fantastic appear again and again: as obsession, as threat, as national myth and collective nightmare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeminder, Emily:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eEmily Geminder's\u003c\/b\u003e short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House Open Bar, Witness, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and her work was noted in Best American Essays 2016. She has worked as a journalist in New York and Cambodia, and is a Provost's Fellow in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California.","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50366085529874,"sku":"9781945814334","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a08f58b3-b522-4010-942a-68233b13871e.jpg?v=1728471545","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dead-girls-and-other-stories-9781945814334","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}