{"product_id":"strange-labour-9781989274354","title":"Strange Labour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With this brilliant debut  Penner thoughtfully upends the tropes of postapocalyptic fiction\" -- Publishers Weekly Strange Labour is a powerful meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe that is indifferent to our extinction  and a provocative re-imagining of many of the tropes and clichs that have shaped the post-apocalyptic novel. Most people have deserted the cities and towns to work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks. The only adults unaffected by this mysterious obsession are a dwindling population that live in the margins of a new society they cannot understand. Isolated  in an increasingly deserted landscape  living off the material remnants of the old order  trapped in antiquated habits and assumptions  they struggle to construct a meaningful life for themselves. Miranda  a young woman who travels across what had once been the West  meets Dave  who has peculiar theories about the apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647861841973,"sku":"ByrdShop_1989274358","price":21.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781989274354.jpg?v=1781698506","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/strange-labour-9781989274354","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}