{"product_id":"things-i-want-back-from-you-paperback","title":"Things I Want Back from You - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Stix\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Stix's debut story collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the fictional California town of San Encanto - a place where suburban angst coexists with the astonishing - a lonely wife finds her oppressive husband has become a dirigible who follows her from the sky, a neglected boy spends his summer unwinding a parasitic Guinea worm from his little sister's belly, and an aspiring life coach attends a self-actualization seminar that goes wildly off the rails. In THINGS I WANT BACK FROM YOU, Elizabeth Stix's hilarious and poignant debut of 20 linked stories, hopelessly flawed characters flail against their own insecurities, seeking one true moment of connection, and if they're lucky, winning that rarest of gifts - a second chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBay Area native Elizabeth Stix writes, edits, and oversleeps in Berkeley, California. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoulevard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Sunday magazine, and elsewhere. She has contributed to numerous anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eBest Microfiction 2019\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDrivel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e642 Things About You (That I Love)\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work was performed live at the New Short Fiction Series in LA, and her story \"Alice\" was optioned by Sneaky Little Sister Films. In the early 2000s, she founded the vanguard lit zine The Big Ugly Review. Her stories have won the Katherine Manoogian Scholarship Prize, the Bay Guardian Fiction Prize, the Southampton Review Short-short Fiction Prize, and have been finalists or semi-finalists for the Disquiet Prize, Glimmer Train Fiction Open, Boulevard Emerging Writers Contest, Sherwood Anderson Prize, and others. Elizabeth has a BA from Brown University and an MA and MFA from San Francisco State. When she's not writing, she can be found staying up way too late doing the NYT Spelling Bee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764194443552,"sku":"9781625570741","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/72c0052cadb5a5cd556ff35da1f7a534.webp?v=1780245397","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/things-i-want-back-from-you-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}