{"product_id":"9781616955243","title":"A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eHere we have Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and stunning visions of the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a veil of forgetfulness. The story of Red Riding Hood is run through a potentially endless series of iterations. A father invents an elaborate, consuming game for his hospitalized son. Indexes, maps, a checkered shirt buried beneath a blanket of snow: they are scattered through these pages as clues to mysteries that may never be solved, lingering evidence of the violence and unknowability of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Tree or a Person or a Wall\u003c\/i\u003e brings together Bell’s previously published shorter fiction—the story collection \u003ci\u003eHow They Were Found\u003c\/i\u003e and the acclaimed novella \u003ci\u003eCataclysm Baby\u003c\/i\u003e—along with seven dark and disturbing new stories, to create a collection of singular power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Soho Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148321276144,"sku":"9781616955243","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616955243_p0.jpg?v=1763849571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616955243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}