{"product_id":"householders-9781771964296","title":"Householders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2022 Firecracker Award for Fiction Finalist - A CBC Books and \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/em\u003e Anticipated Fall Book - A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Title - A \u003cem\u003e49th Shelf \u003c\/em\u003eBook of the Year 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLinked short stories about families, nascent queers, and self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness in their characters' overlapping lives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. From a university campus to an underground bunker, a commune in the woods to Toronto and back again, the linked stories in \u003cem\u003eHouseholders \u003c\/em\u003emove effortlessly between the commonplace and the fantastic. In deft and exacting narratives about difficult children and thorny friendships, hopeful revolutionaries and self-deluded utopians, nascent queers, sincere frauds, and families of all kinds, Kate Cayley mines the moral hazards inherent in the ways we try to save each other and ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Cayley\u003c\/b\u003e has previously written a short story collection, two poetry collections, and a number of plays, both traditional and experimental, which have been produced in Canada and the US. She is a frequent writing collaborator with immersive company Zuppa Theatre. She has won the Trillium Book Award and an O. Henry Prize and been a finalist for the Governor General's Award. She lives in Toronto with her wife and their three children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50380435947794,"sku":"9781771964296","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25295eab-bd8a-4db3-bb92-f204d113f941.jpg?v=1728682014","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/householders-9781771964296","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}