{"product_id":"the-dog-looks-happy-upside-down-paperback","title":"The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMeg Pokrass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerious and witty, mystical and dark, these short stories by Meg Pokrass are small windows into another world, a world that is almost this one--but not quite. In her masterful pieces, Pokrass leads her readers on, page by page, enticing them with her beautiful and dream-like language. Bopping and slamming through these little stories like some genius world tour of the human heart, Pokrass gets a lot done in the shortest spaces imaginable. This collection of tiny, intimate truffles is as powerful as soul-chocolate infused with caffeine. Each of these 50 stories contains bite-sized glimpses into the lives of everyday people, leaving the reader with the long and lasting effects of a full-length novel. Each chapter delves into relevant life events that require further contemplation. Her language is supercharged and witty, with humor and sadness in approximately equal amounts, revealing the dark truth and reality of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people in these stories need Meg Pokrass. Their lives are tough but her imagination is the fire-lasso that can save them, save us. In her work, off-kilter is the same as clear-eyed focus. Here, strange and normal go hand-in-hand, a marriage that explains nothing but makes so much clear. Time after time, these little stories read big. --Bob Hicok, author of \u003ci\u003eElegy Owed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Dog Looks Happy Upside Down\u003c\/i\u003e, Flash Fiction comes of age. -- Bill Roorbach, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Remedy for Love and Life Among Giants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSupercharged and witty, with humor and sadness in approximately equal amounts-- Bobbie Ann Mason, author of \u003ci\u003eShiloh and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sexy but wistful prose poems hint at entire constellations of affections, relationships at once sweet, sad, satisfying--and not. --Molly Peacock, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Blush\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePokrass writes books you want on your nightstand to read not once, but again and again. --Nin Andrews, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy God Is A Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI dare you to read a Meg Pokrass sentence and not want to read the next. Just enter that voice voice and it makes magic. It's the kind where you don't know where you're going until you've left, but you know it was deeply right to have been there. Unassuming, ridiculous, insightful, dark.--Robert Shapard, editor of seven anthologies for W.W. Norton\u003cbr\u003eincluding \u003ci\u003eSudden Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFlash Fiction International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeg Pokrass \u003c\/b\u003eis a leading American writer of the flash fiction form. She is the author of four previous flash fiction collections: \u003ci\u003e Bird Envy \u003c\/i\u003e(Harvard Book Store, 2014); \u003ci\u003eDamn Sure Right \u003c\/i\u003e(Press 53, 2011); \u003ci\u003eCellulose Pajamas \u003c\/i\u003e(Blue Light Press, 2015); and \u003ci\u003eMy Very End of the Universe, Five Mini-Novellas-in-Flash and a Study of the Form \u003c\/i\u003e(Rose Metal Press, 2014). Her stories have appeared in more than 200 literary magazines, including \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's Internet Tendency, Green Mountains Review, The Rumpus, storySouth\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eFlash Fiction International\u003ci\u003e (W. W. Norton, 2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeg Pokrass is a leading American writer of the flash fiction form. She is the author of four previous prose collections: \u003ci\u003eBird Envy\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard Book Store, 2014); \u003ci\u003eDamn Sure Right\u003c\/i\u003e (Press 53, 2011); \u003ci\u003eCellulose Pajamas\u003c\/i\u003e (Blue Light Press, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eMy Very End of the Universe, Five Mini-Novellas-in-Flash and a Study of the Form\u003c\/i\u003e (Rose Metal Press, 2014). Her stories have appeared in more than 200 literary magazines, including \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's Internet Tendency\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGreen Mountains Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003estorySouth\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eFlash Fiction International\u003c\/i\u003e (W.W. Norton, 2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772788408608,"sku":"9780990322122","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fed717cfc0562f78eca9f14ac83550cc.webp?v=1780414309","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-dog-looks-happy-upside-down-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}