{"product_id":"the-archive-of-alternate-endings-9781945814822","title":"The Archive of Alternate Endings","description":"\u003cb\u003eCaptivating...Drager's plot is ambitious and emotionally resonant, making for a clever, beguiling novel. --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth's visits by Halley's Comet, \u003ci\u003eThe Archive of Alternate Endings\u003c\/i\u003e explores how stories are disseminated and shared, edited and censored, voiced and left untold.\u003cp\u003e In 1456, Johannes Gutenberg's sister uses the tale as a surrogate for sharing a family secret only her brother believes. In 1835, The Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm revise the tale to bury a truth about Jacob even he can't come to face. In 1986, a folklore scholar and her brother come to find the record is wrong about the figurative witch in the woods, while in 2211, twin space probes aiming to find earth's sister planet disseminate the narrative in binary code. Breadcrumbing back in time from 2365 to 1378, siblings reimagine, reinvent, and recycle the narrative of Hansel and Gretel to articulate personal, regional, and ultimately cosmic experiences of tragedy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Through a relay of speculative pieces that oscillate between eco-fiction and psychological horror, \u003ci\u003eThe Archive of Alternate Endings\u003c\/i\u003e explores sibling love in the face of trauma over the course of a millennium, in the vein of Richard McGuire's \u003ci\u003eHere\u003c\/i\u003e and Lars von Trier's \u003ci\u003eMelancholia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrager, Lindsey:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Lindsey Drager is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrow Proper\u003c\/i\u003e (Dzanc, 2015), winner of the 2016 Binghamton University \/ John Gardner Fiction Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Daughter Collective\u003c\/i\u003e (Dzanc, 2017), winner of a 2017 Shirley Jackson Award and finalist for at Lambda Literary Award. She is an assistant professor at the College of Charleston.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641744527634,"sku":"9781945814822","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1e21a8f8-78f3-4a29-a2ea-3d3bbd8320d7.jpg?v=1733033527","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-archive-of-alternate-endings-9781945814822","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}