{"product_id":"strip-mall-stories-paperback","title":"Strip Mall: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young lawyer moonlights as an ersatz psychic; a woman struggles with the caregiver burden caused by her boyfriend's satanic possession; a suburban mother reckons with Kafka's \u003cem\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/em\u003e in mass-casualty form. In the blank quotidian spaces of Matthew Meade's debut collection, circumstances of profound and surreal horror-reanimated corpses, conspiracy theorists attacked by \"energy weapons,\" highbrow artwork that's alive (and acting like a jerk)-dissipate with shockingly deadpan ease into sensitive accounts of ordinary human relationships and resilience. With its heartfelt portraits of a magical world where late-stage capitalism has blurred the boundaries between the living and the dead, \u003cem\u003eStrip Mall\u003c\/em\u003e presents a strangely grace-filled vision of the dystopia already upon us. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68297524838623,"sku":"9798988690320","price":17.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Qd21dky0ko9798988690320.webp?v=1792979520","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/strip-mall-stories-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}