{"product_id":"9781940596143","title":"We Show What We Have Learned","description":"Joyce Carol Oates calls debut author Clare Beams “wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable …a female \/feminist voice for the twenty-first century.”\u003cbr\u003eThe literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school auditoriums to the murky waters of a Depression-era health resort, Beams’s landscapes are tinged with otherworldliness, and her characters’ desires stretch the limits of reality. Ing énues at a boarding school bind themselves to their headmaster’s vision of perfection ; a nineteenth-century landscape architect embarks on his first major project, but finds the terrain of class and power intractable ; a bride glimpses her husband’s past when she wears his World War II parachute as a gown ; and a teacher comes undone in front of her astonished fifth graders.\u003cbr\u003eAs they capture the strangeness of being human, the stories in \u003ci\u003eWe Show What We Have Learned\u003c\/i\u003e reveal Clare Beams’s rare and capacious imagination—and yet they are grounded in emotional complexity, illuminating the ways we attempt to transform ourselves, our surroundings, and each other.","brand":"Lookout Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050825105648,"sku":"9781940596143","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940596143_p0.jpg?v=1763667259","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940596143","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}