{"product_id":"9781550719468","title":"Expulsion","description":"\u003cp\u003eExpulsion\u0026amp;Other Stories consists of two parts: a novella followed by a group of short stories. But the main protagonists have one thing in common: they are all women coming of age in difficult times. In the short stories, set in post-Stalinist Russia, the women are confronted by dictatorship's mundane face — a minor bureaucrat, a school teacher, a doctor. Nobody spells out the rules of survival to the young girls and women, yet each learns to play — or pays the price, that of facing “expulsion”. The novella “Face” shares a similar motif of expulsion but takes the reader to a different place — the urban sprawl and property greed of modern Vancouver.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guernica Editions, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145447227632,"sku":"9781550719468","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550719468_p0.jpg?v=1763752612","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550719468","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}