{"title":"Mary Kuryla","description":"Mary Kuryla has been awarded The Pushcart Prize and the Glimmer Train Short Fiction Prize. Her stories have been adapted into award-winning films that premiered at the Sundance and Toronto International film festivals.","products":[{"product_id":"freak-weather-stories-paperback","title":"Freak Weather: stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a nurse who sees a rattlesnake in the pediatric ICU to an animal control officer convinced she's found her abducted daughter in the house of a dog hoarder, the thirteen stories in \u003ci\u003eFreak Weather\u003c\/i\u003e are as unpredictable as the atmospheric changes that give this collection its name. With dark and raucous humor, Mary Kuryla creates female characters who, at times, combine a violent urgency with lack of introspection as they struggle to get out from under the thumb of a perceived authority. The intricate language is inseparable from the narrator's conviction; the characters lie with such bravado they're soon tangled up in their own webs. This brand of romanticism in a female character is little tolerated, and \u003ci\u003eFreak Weather\u003c\/i\u003e's mission--Kuryla's artistic mission overall--is to scratch at the intolerable. Call it bad instructions for moral behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102579986655,"sku":"9781625349521","price":28.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2ddOzcwlTu9781625349521.webp?v=1781083528"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mary-kuryla.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}