{"product_id":"where-is-here","title":"Where Is Here","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn dramatic  tightly focused narratives charges with tension  menace  and the shock of the unexpected  Where Is Here? examines a world in which ordinary life is electrified by the potential for sudden change. Domestic violence  fear and abandonment and betrayal  and the obsession with loss shadow the characters that inhabit these startling  intriguing stories. With the precision and intensity that are the hallmarks of her remarkable talent  Joyce Carol Oates explores the unexpected turns of events that leave people vulnerable and struggling to puzzle out the consequences of their abrupt reversals of fortune. As in the title story  in which a married couple find their controlled life irrevocably altered by a strangers visit  the fiction in this new collection is punctuated again and again by mysterious  perhaps unanswerable  questions: \"Out of what does our life arise? Out of what does our consciousness arise? Why are we here? Where is here?\" Like the questions they pose  these tales -- at once elusive and direct -- unfold with the enigmatic twists of riddles and  often  the blunt shock of tragedy. Where is Here? is the work of a master practitioner of the short story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959035129909,"sku":"ByrdShop_0880013389","price":59.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780880013383.jpg?v=1770461540","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/where-is-here","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}