{"product_id":"9781927380741","title":"The Devil You Know","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Devil You Know\u003c\/i\u003e is the follow-up volume to Farrell’s critically acclaimed debut collection, \u003ci\u003eSugar Bush\u0026amp;Other Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese stories deal with sex, love, work, birth, and death in alternately moving, shocking, funny, and at times devastating ways. Whether these characters are facing the death of a parent, bad love choices, the possibility of unwanted pregnancy, the rupture of friendships, teen violence, or the exploration of sado-masochistic sex, Farrell exposes their ticking cores and pulls the reader along every step of the way.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Devil You Know\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Farrell excels at very short, sharply realized tales that display a startling repertoire of styles and structural innovations.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Vancouver Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Farrell effectively forges her image as a bad-ass version of Alice Munro. Like Munro, she’s a short story writer who focuses on the lives of girls and women in small-town Canada, but Farrell’s characters get high on mushrooms and dabble in BDSM.”(\u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Straight\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Make no mistake; \u003ci\u003eThe Devil You Know\u003c\/i\u003e belongs on the shelf alongside \u003ci\u003eNights Below Station Street.\u003c\/i\u003e In this confident, insightful, often horrifyingly funny collection, Jenn Farrell distinguishes herself as one of Canada’s finest contemporary writers of short fiction. Here are working class family dramas boiled down to the bone. Quick and mean as a Virginia Slim and bright and harsh as a Rexall at midnight, Farrell never fails to bring us down to earth to meet those beautiful, flawed, undeniably human devils we know so well. Refreshingly honest, impeccably written. A very, very good book.” (Elizabeth Bachinsky, Governor General's Award Nominee for \u003ci\u003eHome of Sudden Service\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anvil Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154093293808,"sku":"9781927380741","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927380741_p0.jpg?v=1763636156","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927380741","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}