{"product_id":"9781937543839","title":"Women Born with Fur: a biography","description":"\u003cb\u003eA magical, heart-wrenching story about women born covered in hair, and how they love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beth Couture's \u003ci\u003eWomen Born with Fur\u003c\/i\u003eis a marvelously strange concoction, a cocktail of super-realism, fantasy, surrealism, occultism, and pop art, Rosenquist style. She develops her lovely conceit with care and kindness,leading us into a heartbreaking world we've never imagined, but in which we feel strangely comforted and right at home. \u003cb\u003eAn intoxicating book and brew\u003c\/b\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Frederick Barthelme, author of\u003ci\u003eWaveland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThere Must Be Some Mistake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Where the magic of invention meets up with the heft of the human heart. That's what has been delivered to us here in the form of this short novel. \u003cb\u003eA memorable and singular debut.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eWomen Born with Fur\u003c\/i\u003e is its own language animal that brings speech to its own human heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Peter Markus, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fish and the Not Fish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You have never read anything like Beth Couture's \u003ci\u003eWomen Born with Fur\u003c\/i\u003e, because the writing is utterly reinventing what we mean when we say fiction or novella with \u003cb\u003esly and brilliant\u003c\/b\u003e misdirections, tricks of the eye and ear and heart, glorious lies and precise fabrications. I had to read the whole thing without stopping. I nearly put it in my mouth.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Lidia Yuknavitch, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Chronology of Water\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDora: A Headcase\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Never mind the author's little hat trick of coming on with prose so unassuming,so disarmingly'Who, me?'it hovers above the page, practically while whispering in your ear - just before turning on you with a bite that pierces the skin. So there's that, yes, but still.I cannot think of another writer who could possibly tell this storywith such sincerity and conviction and authenticity, no one.Then again, before reading Beth Couture's\u003ci\u003eWomen Born With Fur\u003c\/i\u003e,I never could have imagined that the hirsute could be so \u003cb\u003eutterly heartbreaking\u003c\/b\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Courtney Eldridge, author of\u003ci\u003eUnkempt\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003eThe Generosity of Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaded Ibis Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054358216944,"sku":"9781937543839","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937543839_p0.jpg?v=1763661910","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937543839","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}