{"title":"Fiona McFarlane","description":"Fiona McFarlane is the author of The Night Guest; The High Places, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize; and The Sun Walks Down. Her short fiction has been published in The New Yorker and Zoetrope: All-Story. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.","products":[{"product_id":"highway-thirteen-stories-paperback","title":"Highway Thirteen: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort-listed for the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiles Franklin Literary Award and the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Fiction Book of the Year by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinnesota Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Recommended Read of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the small town of Barrow, Australia, people go about their ordinary lives. They drive to work through the dense state forest. They raise their families. They flirt and yearn. They lie and confess. Some of them leave home. Some of them return. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Darkness thrums beneath the surface of these ordinary lives: the violence of one man, a serial killer whose murders made Barrow infamous. His twelve victims--women, men, mostly young--are long gone, but their deaths are felt, beyond the forest where they were buried, beyond this country, beyond even this time. In the past, where a young woman on a school trip to Rome sees something she shouldn't have. In the present, where a man confronts an ancient grief on the suburban streets of Texas. In the future, in the hands of journalists and podcast hosts and television actors whose livelihoods hinge on the twin spectacles of loss and violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eHighway Thirteen\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous wonder: a book about the collisions between public and private selves, between parents and children, between history and what comes after, between the living and the dead. Fiona McFarlane's roving vision is itself a story about stories--those we tell, retell, forget, sell, disprove, inherit, live through--and a work of extraordinary power and magic.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102903046367,"sku":"9781250390448","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kO97kyuPqY9781250390448.webp?v=1781087581"},{"product_id":"the-sun-walks-down-paperback","title":"The Sun Walks Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort-Listed for the 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Top 10 Best Book of 2023 by \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus and Chicago Public Library \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Sun Walks Down\u003c\/i\u003e is the book I'm always longing to find: brilliant, fresh, and compulsively readable. It is marvelous. I loved it start to finish.\" --Ann Patchett, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dutch House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFiona McFarlane's blazingly brilliant new novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Walks Down\u003c\/i\u003e, tells the many-voiced, many-sided story of a boy lost in colonial Australia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly--newlyweds, farmers, mothers, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, artists, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen--confront their relationships, both with one another and with the land-scape they inhabit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe colonial Australia of \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Walks Down\u003c\/i\u003e is noisy with opinions, arguments, longings, and terrors. It's haunted by many gods--the sun among them, rising and falling on each day in which Denny could be found, or lost forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in many ways and by many voices, Fiona McFarlane's new novel pulses with love, art, and the unbearable divine. It arrives like a vision, mythic and bright with meaning.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104764465375,"sku":"9781250321756","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ezxOXMPWrE9781250321756.webp?v=1781111269"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/fiona-mcfarlane.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}