{"product_id":"9781770561090","title":"I know you are but what am I?","description":"\u003cp\u003eKleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: here are children and adults, men and women, all struggling to define themselves. The stories in \u003cem\u003eI know you are but what am I?\u003c\/em\u003e are like snow domes - perfect little self-contained worlds that you can hold in your hand, turn upside down, shake until meaning settles in a hundred different ways.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYoung Misha learns about the complexities of grownup love when his mother is bitten by a stingray. Oldrick must come to terms with his ex-girlfriend's new lover and a belligerent barista in the midst of a smelly garbage strike. Bus-bound Marion, in love with a married man, finds solace in conversation with a convict and home-schooled Rational gets a tutor and learns that his 'hunker in the bunker' family isn't quite what he thought it was.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Heather Birrell's sentences conjure worlds. These stories scintillate. Smart, sharp, alluring, they're full of the chance encounters, mysteries, missed connections and unexpected tenderness of contemporary life.' - Catherine Bush\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182937391344,"sku":"9781770561090","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770561090_p0.jpg?v=1763706686","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770561090","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}