{"product_id":"the-rock-eaters-stories-paperback","title":"The Rock Eaters: 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\u003eBrenda Peynado\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of 2021\u003cbr\u003eNYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat does it mean to be other? What does it mean to love in a world determined to keep us apart?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese questions murmur in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado's strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories explore what it means to cross borders and break down walls, personally and politically. In one story, suburban families perform oblations to cattlelike angels who live on their roofs, believing that their \"thoughts and prayers\" will protect them from the world's violence. In another, inhabitants of an unnamed dictatorship slowly lose their own agency as pieces of their bodies go missing and, with them, the essential rights that those appendages serve. \"The Great Escape\" tells of an old woman who hides away in her apartment, reliving the past among beautiful objects she's hoarded, refusing all visitors, until she disappears completely. In the title story, children begin to levitate, flying away from their parents and their home country, leading them to eat rocks in order to stay grounded. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith elements of science fiction and fantasy, fabulism and magical realism, Brenda Peynado uses her stories to reflect our flawed world, and the incredible, terrifying, and marvelous nature of humanity.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrenda Peynado\u003c\/b\u003e's stories have won an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e's Nelson Algren Literary Award, selection for \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best Small Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, a Dana Award, a Fulbright grant to the Dominican Republic, and other awards. Her fiction appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sun \u003c\/i\u003e(London), \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, and more than forty other journals. She received her MFA at Florida State University and her PhD at the University of Cincinnati. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida. This will be her first collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 11, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52543996100915,"sku":"9780143135623","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bGRmbjNlR0lGWklvQVduUzNBQWNTdz09.webp?v=1760946994","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-rock-eaters-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}