{"product_id":"shadowselves-9781950539390","title":"Shadowselves","description":"Speculative and darkly surreal, the stories in \u003ci\u003eShadowselves\u003c\/i\u003e examine characters who have stepped dangerously close to an edge they cannot see. A snow plow driver stranded on the roadside during a blizzard finds himself trapped in a riddled memory. A middle-aged man wakes up one morning to find he's gained four hundred pounds overnight, along with the unbearable regrets of countless strangers. A lonely child sets off to prove the existence of a mythic bird, but uncovers an ugly secret on the other side of town. A comatose teenage outcast traverses the liminal space between life and death. With a sometimes-tenuous grip on reality, and often haunted by mistakes, repressions, and alternate versions of who they might have been, the characters in \u003ci\u003eShadowselves\u003c\/i\u003e struggle to find meaningful human connections in a world where the most important things always seem just out of their reach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOckert, Jason:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, a novel, and three collections of short stories: \u003ci\u003eShadowselves, Neighbors of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRabbit Punches\u003c\/i\u003e. Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, the Atlantic Monthly Fiction Contest, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, he was also a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Million Writers Award. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies including \u003ci\u003eBest American Mystery Stories, Granta, The Cincinnati Review, Oxford American, One Story, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University.","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589874974994,"sku":"9781950539390","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_18aec95f-30b6-4e47-9665-a77039c39b2f.jpg?v=1756811796","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shadowselves-9781950539390","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}