{"product_id":"awayland-stories-paperback","title":"Awayland: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRamona Ausubel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood with an electric mix of humor and emotion.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcclaimed for the grace, wit, and magic of her novels, Ramona Ausubel introduces us to a geography both fantastic and familiar in eleven new stories, some of them previously published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Elegantly structured, these stories span the globe and beyond, from small-town America and sunny Caribbean islands to the Arctic Ocean and the very gates of Heaven itself. And though some of the stories are steeped in mythology, they remain grounded in universal experiences: loss of identity, leaving home, parenthood, joy, and longing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCrisscrossing the pages of \u003ci\u003eAwayland\u003c\/i\u003e are travelers and expats, shadows and ghosts. A girl watches as her homesick mother slowly dissolves into literal mist. The mayor of a small Midwestern town offers a strange prize, for stranger reasons, to the parents of any baby born on Lenin's birthday. A chef bound for Mars begins an even more treacherous journey much closer to home. And a lonely heart searches for love online--never mind that he's a Cyclops. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her signature tenderness, Ramona Ausubel applies a mapmaker's eye to landscapes both real and imagined, all the while providing a keen guide to the wild, uncharted terrain of the human heart.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771025555744,"sku":"9781594634918","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4d3462ae6ef23f24771c733402a83294.webp?v=1780382004","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/awayland-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}