{"product_id":"bewildered-stories-9781625341334","title":"Bewildered: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a world of secret-sharers, a noisy world full of unimaginable silence,” claims one of the characters in this compelling debut collection. The ten stories in \u003cem\u003eBewildered\u003c\/em\u003e examine small world disruptions - mistimed infatuations, devastating diagnoses, the realizations inherent in loss. Characters look up from what they assumed were ordinary lives amazed to discover where they find themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamiliar landscapes - city streets, coastal towns emptied of tourists, suburban neighborhoods—are backdrops for unfulfilled dreams: the luckiest man alive arouses the suspicions of those he most wants to befriend, a grieving lover invites herself into another’s life, a young girl discovers her tea leaves reveal nothing as life-altering as those of her friend, the straying husband pays a debt for his and his son’s obsessions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories ask: Can you live any way forever? What links them is what links all of us: the desire to belong, the need to heal, the fear of what happens next.","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041769193815,"sku":"9781625341334","price":19.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781625341334.jpg?v=1750951608","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bewildered-stories-9781625341334","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}