{"product_id":"what-i-didnt-see-and-other-stories","title":"What I Didn't See and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld Fantasy Award Winner - Shirley Jackson \u0026amp; Locus Award shortlists - Story Prize Notable Books - Frank O'Connor Award longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully written and subtly discomforting stories.\"--Nancy Pearl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An exceptionally versatile author.\"--\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her moving and elegant new collection, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003ebestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger \u003cbr\u003ebrother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and \u003cbr\u003eshe digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and \u003cbr\u003eincisive way only she can.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sinister and the magical are always lurking just below the \u003cbr\u003esurface: for a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son in \u003cbr\u003e\"Halfway People\"; for Edwin Booth in \"Booth's Ghost,\" haunted by his \u003cbr\u003efame as \"America's Hamlet\" and his brother's terrible actions; for \u003cbr\u003eNorah, a rebellious teenager facing torture in the World Fantasy and \u003cbr\u003eShirley Jackson Award winner \"The Pelican Bar\" as she confronts Mama \u003cbr\u003eStrong, the sadistic boss of a rehabilitation facility; for the narrator\u003cbr\u003e recounting her descent in \"What I Didn't See.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith clear and insightful prose, Fowler's stories measure the human \u003cbr\u003ecapacities for hope and despair, brutality and kindness. This \u003cbr\u003ecollection, which includes two Nebula Award winners and some stories \u003cbr\u003ewhich have been significantly rewritten since first publication, is sure\u003cbr\u003e to delight readers, even as it pulls the rug out from underneath them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Beer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54264355324270,"sku":"9781931520485","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_e40c134f-7d52-4c23-baaf-b0265095777a.jpg?v=1783175685","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/what-i-didnt-see-and-other-stories","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}