{"product_id":"women-in-peril-9781639732272","title":"Women! In! Peril!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFull of wry humor, sharp social commentary, and an irrepressible sense of hope, a ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this brash and unputdownable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife's mysterious pregnancy, and a post-Earth colonist struggling to maintain her faith in humanity as she travels to \"Planet B.\" Whether they exist in the grounded realism of a college dance studio or the speculative world of Deep Space, these women push against social norms and family expectations to reclaim their power, understand their mistakes, and find a better future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHilarious, heartbreaking, and defiantly optimistic, the twelve stories in \u003ci\u003eWomen! In! Peril!\u003c\/i\u003e balance humor and gravitas to explore the complexities of queerness, toxic relationships, parenting and divorce, Asian and Asian American identity, and so much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessie Ren Marshall \u003c\/b\u003eis a mixed race, Japanese-American writer who holds an MFA in Fiction from NYU. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times' \u003c\/i\u003eModern Love column, \u003ci\u003eThe Gettysburg Review, Barrelhouse, The Common, ZYZZYVA, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChicago Quarterly Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e, where her story \"Late Girl\" was a finalist for the 2022 Open Border Prize. Her musical \u003ci\u003ePele \u0026amp; The Hi'iakas \u003c\/i\u003ewas a semi-finalist for the 2021 Eugene O'Neill National Musical Theater Conference, and her play \u003ci\u003eHapa Girls\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2020 Kumu Kahua Hawai'i Prize. She lives with her dogs on Hawai\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003ei Island.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577317789970,"sku":"9781639732272","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_55f27a67-f8c1-4f5e-b9a2-9c260c15a79f.jpg?v=1731996012","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/women-in-peril-9781639732272","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}