{"product_id":"her-body-among-animals-9781771668385","title":"Her Body Among Animals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world \"among animals,\" where violence is intertwined with bizarre ecological disruptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sentient sex robot goes against her programming; a grad student living with depression is weighed down by an ever-present albatross; an unhappy wife turns into a spider; a boy with a dark secret is haunted by dolls; a couple bound for a colony on Mars take a road trip through Texas; a girl fights to save her sister from growing a mermaid tail like their absent mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagical yet human, haunted and haunting, these stories act as a surreal documentation of the mistakes in systems of the past that remain very much in the present. Ferrante investigates toxic masculinity and the devastation it enacts upon women and our planet, delving into the universal undercurrent of ecological anxiety in the face of such toxicity, and the personal experience of being a new mother concerned about the future her child will face. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough these confrontations of the complexity of living in a woman's body, \u003ci\u003eHer Body Among Animals \u003c\/i\u003emoves us from hopelessness to a future of resilience and possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents 1. When Foxes Die Electric2. The Underside of a Wing3. Mermaid Girls4. Finding Houdini5. A Trick of the Dark6. Everyday Horror Show 7. Pandora8. Cobwebs9. The Silent Grave of Birds10. So What If It’             s Supposed to Rain11. Among Chameleons and Other Shades","brand":"Book*hug","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516056953175,"sku":"9781771668385","price":16.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/her-body-among-animals-9781771668385","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}