{"title":"Manuel Gonzales","description":"Manuel Gonzales is the winner of the American Library Assocation's Alex Award, and the author of the acclaimed story collection The Miniature Wife, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. A graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program, he teaches writing at the University of Kentucky and the Institute of American Indian Arts. He has published fiction and nonfiction in Open City, Fence, One Story, Esquire, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and The Believer. Gonzales lives in Kentucky with his wife and two children.","products":[{"product_id":"the-regional-office-is-under-attack-paperback","title":"The Regional Office Is Under Attack! - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead it!\" --\u003cb\u003eJess Walter\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[R]ollicking good fun.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A tour-de-force.\" --\u003cb\u003eLaura Miller\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlate\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization--the Regional Office--and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now, the Regional Office is under attack. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Recruited by a defector from within, Rose is a young assassin leading the attack, eager to stretch into her powers and prove herself on her first mission. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah--who may or may not have a mechanical arm--fiercely devoted to the organization that took her in as a young woman in the wake of her mother's sudden disappearance. On the day that the Regional Office is attacked, Rose's and Sarah's stories will overlap, their lives will collide, and the world as they know it just might end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Weaving in a brilliantly conceived mythology, fantastical magical powers, teenage crushes, and kinetic fight scenes, \u003ci\u003eThe Regional Office Is Under Attack! \u003c\/i\u003eis a seismically entertaining debut novel about revenge and allegiance and love.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103112007903,"sku":"9780399573217","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cjz6Ui_IpX9780399573217.webp?v=1781090312"},{"product_id":"the-miniature-wife-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The Miniature Wife: and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales's exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In \"The Artist's Voice\" we meet one of the world's foremost composers, a man who speaks through his ears. A hijacked plane circles a city for twenty years in \"Pilot, Copilot, Writer.\" Sound can kill in \"The Sounds of Early Morning.\" And, in the title story, a man is at war with the wife he accidentally shrank. For these characters, the phenomenal isn't necessarily special--but it's often dangerous. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn slightly fantastical settings, Gonzales illustrates very real guilt over small and large marital missteps, the intense desire for the reinvention of self, and the powerful urges we feel to defend and provide for the people we love. With wit and insight, these stories subvert our expectations and challenge us to look at our surroundings with fresh eyes. Brilliantly conceived, strikingly original, and told with the narrative instinct of a born storyteller, \u003ci\u003eThe Miniature Wife \u003c\/i\u003eis an unforgettable debut.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104390287583,"sku":"9781594632273","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0pP6h_IaQU9781594632273.webp?v=1781108202"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/manuel-gonzales.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}