{"product_id":"9781573668422","title":"Mother Box and Other Tales","description":"The eleven stories and one novella of \u003ci\u003eMother Box, and Other Tales\u003c\/i\u003e bring together everyday reality and something that is dramatically not in compelling narratives of new possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In language that is both barb and bauble, bitter and unbearably sweet, Sarah Blackman spins the threads of stories where everything is probable and nothing is constant. The stories in \u003ci\u003eMother Box, and Other Tales\u003c\/i\u003e occur in an in-between world of outlandish possibility that has become irrefutable reality: a woman gives birth to seven babies and realizes at one of their weddings that they were foxes all along; a girl with irritating social quirks has been raised literally by cardboard boxes; a young woman throws a dinner party only to have her elaborate dessert upstaged by one of the guests who, as it turns out, is the moon. Love between mothers and children is a puzzling thrum that sounds at the very edge of hearing; a muted pulse that, nevertheless, beats and beats and beats.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In these tales, the prosaic details of everyday life—a half-eaten sandwich, an unopened pack of letters on a table—take on fevered significance as the characters blunder into revelations that occlude even as they unfold.","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128855150832,"sku":"9781573668422","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781573668422_p0.jpg?v=1763796744","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781573668422","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}