{"product_id":"the-book-of-disbelieving-9781956046199","title":"The Book of Disbelieving","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Mary McCarthy\u003cbr\u003ePrize in Short Fiction, selected by Susan Minot.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe nine\u003cbr\u003estories in \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Disbelieving \u003c\/i\u003eopen portals to fabulist worlds and\u003cbr\u003emagical objects: a village built on the back of a whale, a holiday that\u003cbr\u003erequires literal leaps of faith, a tower that houses an entire civilization, a\u003cbr\u003ediary that blurs the line between imagination and memory. The worlds Morse\u003cbr\u003ecreates are fantastical, but the challenges his characters face are grounded in\u003cbr\u003ereality, calling into question issues of love, memory, and the subjectivity of\u003cbr\u003eexperience. Steeped in the existential crises of our era, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of\u003cbr\u003eDisbelieving \u003c\/i\u003eis a wondrous collection of fables and lore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally from rural south Georgia, \u003cb\u003eDavid Lawrence Morse\u003c\/b\u003e studied in Russia after the collapse of communism, cleaned toilets in Yosemite, and taught English then lived on a rice farm in the foothills of Yamaguchi, Japan, before eventually earning an MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. His short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eOne Story, Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. His essay on the moral and political complexity of mendacity was published in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003e and his first play, \u003ci\u003eQuartet\u003c\/i\u003e, was performed by the Takács Quartet and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Morse is the director of the writing program at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale, and he lives in New Haven, CT.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718231429394,"sku":"9781956046199","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c73df31c-67b4-452a-aebb-442564040736.jpg?v=1734635182","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-book-of-disbelieving-9781956046199","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}