{"product_id":"9780989473606","title":"Kill Marguerite and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKill Marguerite and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e collects thirteen risk-taking stories obsessed with crossing boundaries, whether formal or corporeal. Narrative genres are giddily mongrelized: the Sweet Valley twins get stuck in a choose-your-own-adventure story; Mean Girls-like violence gets embedded within a classic video game. Protagonists cycle through a series of startling, sometimes violent, changes in gender, physiology, and even species, occasionally blurring into other characters or swapping identities entirely. One woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and a Greek god impregnates a man’s thigh with a sword. More than just a straightforward celebration of the carnivalesque, though, these fictions are deeply engaged, both critically and politically, with the ways that social power operates on, and through, queer bodies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emergency Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017905389808,"sku":"9780989473606","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780989473606_p0.jpg?v=1763894227","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780989473606","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}