{"product_id":"a-house-is-a-body-stories-9781616209896","title":"A House Is a Body: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from The Millions  Bustle  BuzzFeed  Electric Literature Finalist for the 2021 PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction  Swamys A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s; it will change the way all storiesshort and longare told  written  and consumed. There is nothing  no emotion  no tiny morsel of memory  no touch  that this book does not take seriously. Yet  A House Is a Body might be the most fun Ive ever had in a short story collection. Kiese Laymon  author of Heavy  Dreams collide with reality  modernity with antiquity  and myth with identity in the twelve arresting stories of A House Is a Body. In Earthly Pleasures  a young painter living alone in San Francisco begins a secret romance with one of Indias biggest celebrities  and desire and ego are laid bare. In A Simple Composition  a husbands professional crisis leads to his wifes discovery of a dark  ecstatic joy. And in the title story  an exhausted mother watches  hypnotized by fear  as a California wildfire approaches her home. Immersive and assured  provocative and probing  these are stories written with the edge and precision of a knife blade. Set in the United States and India  they reveal small but intense moments of beauty  pain  and power that contain the world.  A House Is a Body introduces a bold and original voice in fiction  from a writer at the start of a stellar career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646980841525,"sku":"ByrdShop_1616209895","price":21.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781616209896.jpg?v=1781684425","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-house-is-a-body-stories-9781616209896","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}