{"product_id":"fifty-beasts-to-break-your-heart-and-other-stories","title":"Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003eFrom the author of the breakout novel \u003ci\u003eThistlefoot: \u003c\/i\u003e a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us--or go monstrously wrong. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Real magic, real delight, doled out generously in the shape of wistful, ferocious, this-world-but-better stories.\"--Kelly Link, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Cat, Black Dog\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eFifty Beasts to Break Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secrets--and their own doomed summer love. A zombie rooster plays detective in a missing persons case. A woman moves into a new house with her acclaimed artist boyfriend--and finds her body slowly shifting into something specially constructed to accommodate his needs and whims. A pack of middle schoolers turn to the occult to rid themselves of a hated new classmate. And a pair of outcasts, a vampire and a goat woman, find solace in each other, even as the world's lack of understanding might bring about its own end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these lush, strange, beautifully written stories, GennaRose Nethercott explores human longing in all its diamond-dark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beast, and make you beg to have your heart broken.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0593314182\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593314180\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Nethercott, Gennarose\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Feb 2024)","offer_id":46079835406533,"sku":"9780593314180","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593314180.jpg?v=1776032130","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/fifty-beasts-to-break-your-heart-and-other-stories","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}