{"product_id":"telling-the-map-stories-9781618731326","title":"Telling the Map: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are ten stories here including one readers have waited ten long years for: in new novel-la \u003ci\u003eThe Border State\u003c\/i\u003e Rowe revisits the world of his much-lauded story \u003ci\u003eThe Voluntary State\u003c\/i\u003e. Competitive cyclists twins Michael and Maggie have trained all their lives to race internationally. One thing holds them back: their mother who years before crossed the border ... into Tennessee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Christopher Rowe: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rowe's stories are the kind of thing you want on a cold, winter's night when the fire starts burning low. Terrific.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Justina Robson (\u003ci\u003eGlorious Angels\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As good as he is now, he'll keep getting better. Read these excellent stories, and see what I mean.\"--Jack Womack (\u003ci\u003eGoing, Going, Gone\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rowe's work might remind you of that of Andy Duncan. Both exemplify an archetypically Southern viewpoint on life's mysteries, a worldview that admits marvels in the most common of circumstances and narrates those unreal intrusions in a kind of downhome manner that belies real sophistication.\"-- \u003ci\u003eAsimov's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As smooth and heady as good Kentucky bourbon.\"-- \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Rowe\u003c\/b\u003e's stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon awards, frequently reprinted, translated into a half-dozen languages, praised by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and long listed in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writer's Studio. Rowe and his wife Gwenda Bond co-write the Supernormal Sleuthing Series for children, and reside in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Rowe: Christopher Rowe has published a couple of dozen short stories, and been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. His work has been frequently reprinted, translated into a half-dozen languages around the world, praised by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and long listed in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writer's Studio. Rowe and his wife Gwenda Bond co-write the Supernormal Sleuthing Series for children, and reside in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Small Beer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493027877138,"sku":"9781618731326","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3258d79-cb2f-447e-8efd-a4ee2ae24f81.jpg?v=1730622892","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/telling-the-map-stories-9781618731326","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}