{"product_id":"9781566894906","title":"The Doll's Alphabet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This doll's eye view is a total delight and surveys a world awash with shadowy wit and exquisite collisions of beauty and the grotesque.\" —Helen Oyeyemi, author of \u003ci\u003eBoy, Snow, Bird\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Down to its most particular details, \u003ci\u003eThe Doll's Alphabet \u003c\/i\u003ecreates an individual world—a landscape I have never encountered before, which now feels like it was been waiting to be captured, and waiting to captivate, all along.\" —Sheila Heti, author of \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marvellous. Grudova understands that the best writing has to pull off the hardest aesthetic trick—it has to be both memorable and fleeting.\" —Deborah Levy, author of \u003ci\u003eHot Milk \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies—by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Doll's Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e are by turns child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark: the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCamilla Grudova \u003c\/b\u003elives in Toronto. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe White Review \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060319961328,"sku":"9781566894906","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566894906_p0.jpg?v=1763788645","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566894906","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}