{"product_id":"out-there-stories-9780593231487","title":"Out There: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, \"[as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e\" (Chang-Rae Lee, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Year Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading.\"--Kelly Link, author of \u003ci\u003eGet In Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk's debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth's remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story, originally published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003ea woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by \"blots,\" preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrescient and wildly imaginative, \u003ci\u003eOut There \u003c\/i\u003edepicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Folk \u003c\/b\u003ehas written for publications including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's Quarterly Concern, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eZyzzyva\u003c\/i\u003e. She's received support from the Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Recently, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. She lives in San Francisco. \u003ci\u003eOut There \u003c\/i\u003eis her first book.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610087919890,"sku":"9780593231487","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff23df7c-0782-4f00-b4e2-97214b6e6b30.jpg?v=1732333299","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/out-there-stories-9780593231487","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}