{"product_id":"storyknife-paperback","title":"Storyknife - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Paperback Original\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sharply constructed, death-defying story collection that dismantles the myths of white America, revealing race, class, and gender as fictions that can be taken apart and remade\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his first story collection in fifteen years, Jess Row evokes white America--specifically liberal, educated white Northeasterners--awkwardly and hilariously poised on the precipice of cultural and global collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"The Empties,\" a woman questions whether the writing skills she acquired at liberal arts college can be useful in the face of apocalypse. In \"Summer Song,\" a chorus of bourgeois voices sings out its privileged discontent. \"Reading Group Guide\" satirizes book-club chatter with questions that veer from the absurd to the obscene. Each story turns a lens on its own machinery, exposing the quiet politics encoded in literary convention. Using surgical precision, biting irony, and formal experimentation, Row pierces through the stories white America tells itself--and the narrative structures that make them seem natural, inevitable, and true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStoryknife\u003c\/i\u003e is a funny, troubling, indelible look at a culture whose rituals and expectations are dissolving into thin air. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375391506655,"sku":"9780062400673","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VLebp753ha9780062400673.webp?v=1789200199","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/storyknife-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}