{"product_id":"these-are-our-demands-stories-9781938126376","title":"These Are Our Demands: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe characters in Matthew Pitt's \u003cem\u003eThese Are Our Demands \u003c\/em\u003egrasp at last chances. Through subversive--and sometimes fabulist--satire, this collection explores the wilderness beyond the borders of polite society.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The stories in \u003cem\u003eThese Are Our Demands\u003c\/em\u003e vibrate with the 'magical every day, ' each one finely tuned to the strange, hilarious, and often unsettling pulse that beats beneath the ordinary. Matthew Pitt has written a brilliant study of us, one that will keep you smiling and thinking for days. With the humor of Thurber and the algebra of Borges, he reveals the buried restlessness that ripples the surface of modern life.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Ana Menéndez, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eauthor of\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eAdios, Happy Homeland!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Matthew Pitt's \u003cem\u003eThese Are Our Demands\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive, powerful collection. It showcases Pitt's keen eye for the ways that his characters struggle to be more than the person that they are, despite the fact that they are, as one story puts it, 'falling behind the curve.' These are stories deeply rooted in place that peel away the illusion of safety to find a deeper truth, something startling and beautiful.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Kevin Wilson, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eauthor of\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Family Fang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In turns both dark and shimmering, Matthew Pitt's beautiful prose simmers with uncertainty and unease, humor and heartache, tenderness and toughness. This collection of timely, timeless stories is filled with characters who teeter on the precipice between getting what they want and losing what they have, a panoply of desire and desperation, of unrealized dreams and unexpected kindnesses. It's a truly wonderful book.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Aryn Kyle, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eauthor of\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe God of Animals\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePitt, Matthew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Matthew Pitt is the author of the previous story collection Attention Please Now, winner of the Autumn House Fiction Prize and finalist for the Writers' League of Texas Book Award. Stories of his have received numerous awards, are cited in The Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories anthologies, and appear in Best New American Voices, Cincinnati Review, Oxford American, Conjunctions, Epoch, and the Southern Review, among other publications. A native of St. Louis, he lives with his wife and daughters in Fort Worth, where he teaches at TCU.","brand":"Engine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034224423186,"sku":"9781938126376","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_da647a38-28b7-44cc-a5ca-39bc71f1c470.jpg?v=1770989055","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/these-are-our-demands-stories-9781938126376","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}