{"product_id":"9781466823365","title":"So This Is Love: Lollipop and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdroitly capturing love and all its nuances, \u003ci\u003eSo This Is Love \u003c\/i\u003epulsates with underlying currents of violence, sex, passion, and the politics of desire. Tracing the globe, individuals find themselves caught in the entanglements of memory, forgetting, and the imminent future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an overcrowded hospital in war-torn Bosnia, a Muslim soldier and a young Serbian woman---one crippled, the other blind---find solace in each other. In small-town Ontario, a father and daughter relive the summer when an ethereal girl entered their lives and a brutal assault changed everything. In an apartment peopled with an eclectic mix of bohemian expatriates, a man pursues a young suicidal waif at the height of the sexual revolution in 1970s Paris. \u003ci\u003eSo this is love.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn sparkling, insightful prose, Gilbert Reid's provocative debut collection of short stories takes the reader on a journey through war zones, bohemian apartments, idyllic rural farms, and the dark streets of Rome. Madly romantic, subtly subversive, and utterly accomplished, \u003ci\u003eSo This Is Love\u003c\/i\u003e is at times morose, at times perverse, at times beautiful, but always honest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129835307248,"sku":"9781466823365","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466823365_p0.jpg?v=1769891102","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466823365","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}