{"product_id":"9781429961493","title":"Ether: Seven Stories and a Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \"Leavers' Events,\" a teenage girl awaits exam results and has a sexual encounter with a teacher that she hopes will define her. In \"Sunday's Child,\" a middle-aged actress evicts a homeless woman from her garden, which precipitates a crisis of conscience. In \"The Bachelor's Table,\" a lawyer takes advantage of an accounting mistake and sets in motion a sequence of events that force him to evaluate his actions. In the title story, \"Ether,\" a blocked writer plagiarizes his own life with devastating consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll the characters in Evgenia Citkowitz's first collection of short fiction are connected by the quest for identity. Some are poised at a crossroads, while others teeter on the edge of a moral precipice. The stories are startlingly original, haunting, and often funny. From a hamster cage in Los Angeles to the bowels of the great houses of London and Long Island, Citkowitz depicts her characters' frailties and humanity with a mordant humor and tenderness that never diminish their complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154121801968,"sku":"9781429961493","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429961493_p0.jpg?v=1769902870","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429961493","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}