{"product_id":"a-manual-for-how-to-love-us-stories-paperback","title":"A Manual for How to Love Us: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErin Slaughter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA debut, interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal nature of women's grief--offering insight into the profound experience of loss and the absurd ways in which we seek control in an unruly world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamlessly shifting between the speculative and the blindingly real, balancing the bizarre with the subtle brutality of the mundane, \u003cem\u003eA Manual for How to Love Us\u003c\/em\u003e is a tender portrait of women trying their best to survive, love, and find genuine meaning in the aftermath of loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these unconventional and unpredictably connected stories, Erin Slaughter shatters the stereotype of the soft-spoken, sorrowful woman in distress, queering the domestic and honoring the feral in all of us. In each story, grieving women embrace their wildest impulses as they attempt to master their lives: one woman becomes a \"gazer\" at a fraternity house, another slowly moves into her otherworldly stained-glass art, a couple speaks only in their basement's black box, and a thruple must decide what to do when one partner disappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe women in Erin Slaughter's stories suffer messy breaks, whisper secrets to the ghosts tangled in the knots of their hair, eat raw meat to commune with their inner wolves, and build deadly MLM schemes along the Gulf Coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet across oft-overlooked towns in the American South, \u003cem\u003eA Manual for How to Love Us\u003c\/em\u003e spotlights women who are living on the brink and clinging to its precipitous edge. Lyrical and surprisingly humorous, \u003cem\u003eA Manual for How to Love Us\u003c\/em\u003e is an exciting debut that reveals the sticky complications of living in a body, in all its grotesquerie and glory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52571896611123,"sku":"9780063230880","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UEsyMzRwSGdRVVlhK1N0NW9lK3RBZz09.webp?v=1761378795","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-manual-for-how-to-love-us-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}