{"product_id":"vanished-9781496232571","title":"Vanished","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Raz\/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, \u003ci\u003eVanished\u003c\/i\u003e tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them. The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her coworkers into her mother’s bird-filled house to film a show about animal hoarding because it will reveal too much about her family and past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Humorous and empathetic, the collection exposes the adversity in each character’s life; each deals with something or someone who has vanished—a person close to her, a friendship, a relationship—as she seeks to make sense of the world around her in the wake of that loss.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lin-Greenberg’s flawless and insightful prose gives an acute sense of the characters’ perspectives as they change. This accomplished work is full of surprises.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e“In this compassionate, unapologetic, and hilarious collection, Karin Lin-Greenberg’s unmistakably unique voice shines. The human struggle for connection guides us through each story’s surprising world of art, pop culture, school, difficult relationships, and weird animals. I fell in love with these edgy, lost characters who bump into enlightenment by accident, and only after wading through oceans of denial and terrible choices. Vanished is a celebration of our flawed humanity.”—Erika Krouse, author of \u003ci\u003eTell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The stories in Karin Lin-Greenberg’s \u003ci\u003eVanished\u003c\/i\u003e do not shy away from our current moment of division and estrangement. Like Richard Yates’s \u003ci\u003eEleven Kinds of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e or Stephanie Vaughn’s \u003ci\u003eSweet Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, Lin-Greenberg’s \u003ci\u003eVanished\u003c\/i\u003e is peopled with characters who are bitter and funny and who do questionable things—and who are, as a result, imminently human, unquestioningly alive on the page. An engrossing and extraordinary book by a true master of the form.”—Nick White, author of \u003ci\u003eSweet and Low\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStill Life\u003cbr\u003e Housekeeping\u003cbr\u003e Roland Raccoon\u003cbr\u003e Vanished\u003cbr\u003e Perspective for Artists\u003cbr\u003e Since Vincent Left\u003cbr\u003e Aquatics\u003cbr\u003e Lost or Damaged\u003cbr\u003e Mrs. Whitson’s Face\u003cbr\u003e Migration\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409241874775,"sku":"9781496232571","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496232571.jpg?v=1730506108","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vanished-9781496232571","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}