{"product_id":"the-woods-stories-paperback","title":"The Woods: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanice Obuchowski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Woods\u003c\/i\u003e explores the lives of people in a small Vermont college town and its surrounding areas--a place at the edge of the bucolic, where the land begins to shift into something untamed. In the tradition of Elizabeth Strout's \u003ci\u003eOlive Kitteridge\u003c\/i\u003e and Sherwood Anderson's \u003ci\u003eWinesburg, Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e, these stories follow people who carry private griefs but search for contentment. As they try to make sense of their worlds, grappling with problems--worried about their careers, their marriages, their children, their ambitions--they also sift through the happiness they have, and often find deep solace in the landscape. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What do we find in the woods? An uplifting of spirit or a quieting of sorrow. A sense of being haunted by the past. Sometimes rougher, more violent things: abandoned quarries and feral cats, black bears, brothers caught up in an escalating war, a ghost who wishes to pass on her despair, monsters who boom with hollow ecstatic laughter. But also songbirds: the hermit thrush and the winter wren. Rushing rivers glossy with froth. A nineteenth-century inn that's somehow gotten by all these years. And far within, a vegetal twilight and constant dusk that feels outside of time. This remarkable debut illuminates the ways we all carry within ourselves aspects stark, beautiful, wild, and unknowable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanice Obuchowski's\u003c\/b\u003e fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlaska Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions online\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLitHub.\u003c\/i\u003e Previously a fiction editor at \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, she lives in Middlebury, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772208644384,"sku":"9781609388751","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4729ffb49c61c691c36e1136c0040aa1.webp?v=1780401277","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-woods-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}