{"product_id":"bad-houses-9781551529622","title":"Bad Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humorous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Alice Munro \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel \u003cem\u003eMy Volcano,\u003c\/em\u003e comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the surreal, often precarious realities of \u003cem\u003eBad Houses\u003c\/em\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 humorous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresent throughout \u003cem\u003eBad Houses\u003c\/em\u003e is 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, \u003cem\u003eBad Houses \u003c\/em\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\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. This book is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"John Elizabeth Stintzi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278288236795,"sku":"9781551529622","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781551529622.jpg?v=1772484716","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/bad-houses-9781551529622","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}