{"product_id":"9781926845524","title":"All the Voices Cry","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE QWF FIRST BOOK PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories.”—David Bezmozgis, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Free World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Petersen's \u003ci\u003eAll the Voices Cry\u003c\/i\u003e is masterful and potent—incredibly satisfying for a reader.\u003cbr\u003e— Kathleen Winter, author of \u003ci\u003eAnnabel\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn academic’s wife, struggling to keep up with her husband’s quest to find a long-dead author’s Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender redheads, Champlain’s astrolabe, and a brush with mortality—and finds at least the latter at \u003ci\u003eDanseuses 7 Jours\u003c\/i\u003e . An elderly man boards a trans-Pacific flight in an attempt to elude the prediction of a psychic, only to understand too late how the prophecy has shaped his actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll the Voices Cry\u003c\/i\u003e , modern life collides with all the old pushes and pulls: city and country, the global and the local, the ideal and the real. Petersen’s characters chase the mirage of escape, and are brought up hard by reality. This is a book rooted in landscape, tangled in the brambles of personal history, and it introduces in Alice Petersen a wondrous new voice that is yours to discover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlice Petersen \u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and critic whose work has been shortlisted for numerous Canadian prizes and awards. She was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048571093232,"sku":"9781926845524","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781926845524_p0.jpg?v=1763635503","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781926845524","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}