{"product_id":"the-lost-daughter-collective-paperback","title":"The Lost Daughter Collective - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLindsey Drager\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery woman was once a girl\u003cbr\u003e and every girl was once a daughter\u003cbr\u003e For every woman in the world, \u003cbr\u003e there will always be laughter in slaughter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Midnight at the Institute. Using bedtime stories as cautionary tales, a Wrist Scholar tells his only child of the Lost Daughter Collective: a fabled group of bereaved fathers who meet in an abandoned umbrella factory to mourn the loss of their girls. Over everything hangs the mystery of the Archivist's daughter--neither dead nor missing, but indisputably gone. Blurring the line between reality and artifice, far past and near future, Drager's satirical exploration of gender politics and identity queers the old adage: \"A son is a son 'til he finds himself a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With allusions to \u003ci\u003eAlice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeter Pan, The Lost Daughter Collective\u003c\/i\u003e is a gothic fairy tale fusing the fabulism of Donald Barthleme and Ben Marcus with the language play of Rikki Ducornet and Jenny Offill.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLindsey Drager\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrow Proper\u003c\/i\u003e (Dzanc, 2015), winner of the 2016 Binghamton University \/ John Gardner Fiction Award. Originally from Michigan, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the College of Charleston, where she teaches in the MFA program in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 07, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769863143712,"sku":"9781941088739","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4a022b56d7f9201d688966b9c3f65740.webp?v=1780358540","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-lost-daughter-collective-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}