{"product_id":"time-for-bed-stories-9780807171516","title":"Time for Bed: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eBed is where we sleep and dream, where we make love and give ourselves nightmares. The thirteen stories in Wendy Rawlings's \u003ci\u003eTime for Bed\u003c\/i\u003e traverse the complicated terrain of bedtime activity, from adulterous couplings to nightmares that come to life, in terms that can feel lurid, unsettling, or disturbingly funny. A college student struggles with her mother leaving her father for a \"cafeteria lady\" at her high school. A woman loses her only daughter in a mass school shooting and goes on a road trip to buy a custom coffin, then decides to take a side trip to NRA headquarters. A daughter decides she should be born again--literally. Social, cultural, and familial disruptions haunt these characters in their waking lives as they look to grab something or someone for stability. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A collection of comic stories that confront difficult and tragic events, \u003ci\u003eTime for Bed \u003c\/i\u003ecrafts dreamscapes and bizarre encounters into bedtime stories for adults.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Rawlings\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCome Back Irish\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2000 Sandstone Prize for Short Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eThe Agnostics\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Michigan Literary Fiction Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eCincinnati Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359275483410,"sku":"9780807171516","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6294c900-bb74-4689-8b28-1159292cb19f.jpg?v=1749587167","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/time-for-bed-stories-9780807171516","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}