{"product_id":"diving-board-9781778430732","title":"Diving Board","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Opening \u003ci\u003eDiving Board\u003c\/i\u003e is like waking in a white room with no doors or windows. A question resonates as one reads these stories: How did Tomás Downey place me here so perfectly, and why is it that I don't want to leave?\"--Agustina Bazterrica, author of \u003ci\u003eTender is the Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Unworthy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTomás Downey writes from the edge of the abyss. A little girl disappears midair; a horse grows from a seed; a war widow receives a visit of condolence, over and over and over again. In \"The Astronaut\" a man has become weightless, bobbing around on the ceiling, nauseated every time he is brought down and tethered to the earth. But the question here is not \"how\" or \"why,\" it's \"what happens next?\" The astronaut wonders \"Will I burn like an asteroid or drown in the void of space?\" just as all of Downey's stories reside in that threatening, destabilizing moment when all connection is lost. The world is filled with an ever-thickening mist, an old love haunts the living, making fruit rot in the bowl, and resolution isn't offered or even sought--the human condition is queasy, fretful, absurd. All we can hope for is the leap into the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTomás Downey\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator, screenwriter, and the author of three short story collections: \u003ci\u003eAcá el tiempo es otra cosa\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eEl lugar donde mueren los pájaros\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), and \u003ci\u003eFlores que se abren de noche\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). He teaches creative writing. His work has received numerous grants and awards. His stories have been translated into Italian and English, and have appeared in magazines such as \u003ci\u003eThe Offing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Common\u003c\/i\u003e, and in the anthology \u003ci\u003eThrough the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (Two Lines Press). His first novel, \u003ci\u003eLópez López\u003c\/i\u003e, will be released by Editorial Fiordo in 2025. He was born in 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Moses\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator from Spanish and French. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Unworthy\u003c\/i\u003e by Agustina Bazterrica, and \u003ci\u003eDie, My Love\u003c\/i\u003e by Ariana Harwicz, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize, among other awards. Her collection of short fiction, \u003ci\u003eStrange Water\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in the fall of 2024. Sarah lives in Buenos Aires and Toronto, where she's from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Invisible Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635347489042,"sku":"9781778430732","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_131e580f-8147-4e25-ad47-3f74c202fc3f.jpg?v=1759229838","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/diving-board-9781778430732","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}