{"product_id":"9781631496202","title":"And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn NPR and \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003ePopulated with such heroes as time-traveling queens and video-game designing goddesses, and such specters as clingy ghosts and mediocre men, \u003cem\u003eAnd I Do Not Forgive You\u003c\/em\u003e is tethered intricately by shades of rage.\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBoldly blending fables and myths with apocalyptic technologies, Amber Sparks holds a singular role in the canon of the weird. Having garnered acclaim for her shimmering collection \u003cem\u003eThe Unfinished World\u003c\/em\u003e, she reaches uncanny heights with \u003cem\u003eAnd I Do Not Forgive You\u003c\/em\u003e. In prose that beats with urgency, these contemporary stories read like the best of fairytales—which are, as Sparks writes, just a warning disguised as a wish.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn “Mildly Happy, With Moments of Joy,” a friend is ghosted by a simple text message; in “Everyone’s a Winner at Meadow Park,” a teen precariously coming of age in a trailer park befriends an actual ghost. Indeed, the depths of friendship are examined under the most trying circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHumorous and unapologetically fierce, other stories shine an interrogating light on the adage that “history likes to lie about women”? as the subjects of “You Won’t Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Women” (it’s true, you won’t) will attest. Sparks employs her vast knowledge of the morbid and macabre in “The Eyes of Saint Lucy,” in which a young girl creates elaborately violent dioramas of famous saints with her mother. And in “A Short and Speculative History of Lavoisier’s Wife,” the great efforts of French chemist Lavoisier’s widow to ensure his legacy are chillingly revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTaken together, this hypnotic and otherworldly collection seeks to reclaim the lives of the silenced. And what is history, Sparks asks, but the chance to dig up our skeletons and give them new stories? Humorous and unapologetically fierce, \u003cem\u003eAnd I Do Not Forgive You\u003c\/em\u003e offers a mosaic of an all-too-real world that too often fails to listen to its goddesses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50098529009904,"sku":"9781631496202","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631496202","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}