{"product_id":"softie-stories-9781959000310","title":"Softie: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn beautifully melancholy stories of magical realism, the women and girls in Softie transform their bodies and test their sanity, trying to find meaning in the loneliest of places. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former child star haunted by a past she can't remember. An Afro-French girl with an obsession for ear lobes. A loner whose only friend is hiding a terrible, otherworldly secret. Each of these stories shares situations that are sometimes fantastical, sometimes commonplace, but always strange. From a Corsican vacation town in its off-season to hospital rooms and a seedy hotel suite in Chicago, experience the every day come fully untethered from reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMegan Howell is a DC-based writer. She earned her MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland in College Park, winning both the Jack Salamanca Thesis Award and the Kwiatek Fellowship. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nashville Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Establishment\u003c\/i\u003e among other publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50895285846290,"sku":"9781959000310","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f695574-d47d-4c74-9e53-fb9cd70fe03b.jpg?v=1738269420","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/softie-stories-9781959000310","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}