{"product_id":"farthest-south-other-stories-9781646050475","title":"Farthest South \u0026 Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA baby is born with gills. Foxes raise and then lose a human child. A man, in the final throes of his deathbed fever-dream, experiences a cross-Antarctic voyage. The stories in \u003ci\u003eFarthest South\u003c\/i\u003e, the second story collection from renowned writer Ethan Rutherford, find characters in the most unexpectedly menacing of circumstances, in which their sanity, happiness, and safety are put to the test. Formally ambitious, with an eye toward the strange, with an inimitable style all Rutherford's own, each story is nonetheless firmly grounded by a deep, human concern: the anxiety of family connection and humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEthan Rutherford's fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBOMB, Tin House, Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, Post Road, Esopus, Conjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Award, received honorable mention for the PEN\/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award. Born in Seattle, Washington, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and now teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut with his wife and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Strange Object","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50437626429714,"sku":"9781646050475","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3d67a71f-f852-4ac5-8295-6116060ba354.jpg?v=1729645552","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/farthest-south-other-stories-9781646050475","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}