{"product_id":"9781551529615","title":"Bad Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humourous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Kelly Link \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel \u003ci\u003eMy Volcano,\u003c\/i\u003e comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the surreal, often precarious realities of \u003ci\u003eBad Houses\u003c\/i\u003e, a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas's hairdresser strives to keep his secrets, and a young girl develops a fascination with the trolls who harvest her father's pumpkin patch. At once humourous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresent throughout \u003ci\u003eBad Houses \u003c\/i\u003eis a deep and abiding sense of humanity sprinkled with a dash of alienation, guilt, and instability. Filtered through a fabulist lens, these stories contemplate the struggles of modern existence. Each character lives their own haunted life, trying to navigate the path from bad houses to good homes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing Stintzi's own expressive ink illustrations, \u003ci\u003eBad Houses \u003c\/i\u003eis a book that feels like it was penned by a trans Alice Munro mixed with a bubblier Franz Kafka. Enter if you dare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Elizabeth Stintzi (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Arsenal Pulp Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-09-03","offer_id":45652396343551,"sku":"9781551529615","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_67297327-6f7b-430d-be1e-14bf8eefc9b1.jpg?v=1718331267","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781551529615","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}