{"product_id":"9781618731326","title":"Telling the Map: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are ten stories here including one readers have waited ten long years for: in new novel-la \u003ci\u003eThe Border State\u003c\/i\u003e Rowe revisits the world of his much-lauded story \u003ci\u003eThe Voluntary State\u003c\/i\u003e . Competitive cyclists twins Michael and Maggie have trained all their lives to race internationally. One thing holds them back: their mother who years before crossed the border … into Tennessee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Christopher Rowe:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rowe’s stories are the kind of thing you want on a cold, winter’s night when the fire starts burning low. Terrific.”\u003cbr\u003e—Justina Robson ( \u003ci\u003eGlorious Angels\u003c\/i\u003e )\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As good as he is now, he’ll keep getting better. Read these excellent stories, and see what I mean.”—Jack Womack ( \u003ci\u003eGoing, Going, Gone\u003c\/i\u003e )\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rowe’s work might remind you of that of Andy Duncan. Both exemplify an archetypically Southern viewpoint on life’s mysteries, a worldview that admits marvels in the most common of circumstances and narrates those unreal intrusions in a kind of downhome manner that belies real sophistication.”— \u003ci\u003eAsimov’s\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As smooth and heady as good Kentucky bourbon.”— \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eChristopher Rowe\u003c\/b\u003e ’s stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon awards, frequently reprinted, translated into a half-dozen languages, praised by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e , and long listed in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e . He holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writer’s Studio. Rowe and his wife Gwenda Bond co-write the Supernormal Sleuthing Series for children, and reside in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Beer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056454353136,"sku":"9781618731326","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781618731326_p0.jpg?v=1763854669","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781618731326","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}