{"product_id":"2940032917243","title":"Picking Blueberries","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerfully evocative portrait of an alternative community in the early 1970s, told with a child's-eye simplicity by a young resident. Short fiction from an author whose work has been described by World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer as \"Rapacious, intelligent and witty\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Monterra's Deliciosa \u0026amp; Other Tales \u0026amp; could never be mistaken for ordinary genre fiction ... don't imagine this as high falutin' 'lit'rature' accessible only to people with advanced degrees. Anyone with a taste for beauty, audacity, sensuality, and wit can find much to enjoy here.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Faren Miller, Locus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... odd and surreal ... sometimes whimsical, and often wonderfully strange.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anna Tambour is an Australian writer of decidedly offbeat stories... she has a supremely quirky viewpoint and a tendency toward genre-bending and strange humour. But I had no idea to what extent! Monterra's Deliciosa \u0026amp; Other Tales \u0026amp; is a revelation and a delight. Tambour's writing ranges from mainstream to slipstream, to animal and plant fantasies, metafiction, horror, science fiction, and stories odd enough that they can hardly be described as anything but 'Tambour fiction'.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Rich Horton, \"A Different Drum: Anna Tambour's First Collection Reviewed\", Lost Pages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anna Tambour for me is one of those underrated speculative fiction authors.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Charles Tan, Bibliophile Stalker\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"infinity plus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154350620912,"sku":"2940032917243","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940032917243_p0.jpg?v=1763655300","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940032917243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}