{"product_id":"reptile-house-9781938160653","title":"Reptile House","description":"With characters trapped by blind ambitions and toxic relationships, these stories probe the dark underbelly of human nature and want.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin McLean: Robin McLean was a lawyer and then a potter for 15 years in the woods of Alaska before receiving her MFA at UMass Amherst in Massachusetts. Her first collection \u003ci\u003eReptile House\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Short Story Prize in 2011 and 2012. McLean's stories appear widely in such places as \u003ci\u003eThe Nashville Review, The Malahat Review, Gargoyle, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Common and Copper Nickel, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as the anthology \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers.\u003c\/i\u003e A figure skater first--having learned to skate and walk at the same time--McLean believes that crashing on ice prepared her for writing fiction. She currently teaches at Clark University, and splits her time between Newfound Lake in Bristol, New Hampshire, and a 200-year-old farm in western Massachusetts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50545260134674,"sku":"9781938160653","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c8cf1bdf-32eb-446f-b4ad-62e6255fb57b.jpg?v=1731543959","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reptile-house-9781938160653","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}