{"product_id":"9781941531754","title":"Machines Like Us","description":"Machines Like Us is part love story, part dreamscape, part exploration of self. For the characters (Speaker, Boy, and Historian), love is dangerous, disorienting, self-erasing. To understand themselves as individuals, they must investigate the boundaries separating each from the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoy finds a spot beneath a tree\u0026amp;stretches out\u003cbr\u003etaking up half of the forest floor. Historian\u0026amp;I\u003cbr\u003ehave to keep stepping over Boy’s limbs\u0026amp;sometimes\u003cbr\u003ewe step into each other, a pile of Boy\u0026amp;Historian\u0026amp;me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of the collection, the three struggle to tether and untether. They continuously disturb and upend, externally and internally. They are terrified to be with and without each other. The resulting horror—blood, broken bodies, decomposition—is a landscape, both natural and unnatural, of their glorious failure.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158761586928,"sku":"9781941531754","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941531754_p0.jpg?v=1763755650","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941531754","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}