{"product_id":"fantasic-women-isbn-9781935639107","title":"Fantasic Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eFeaturing work by some of the most exciting contemporary women writers in the United States, \u003ci\u003eFantastic Women\u003c\/i\u003e comprises eighteen inventive, insightful narratives steeped in a heady potion of surrealism and macabre black comedy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet the daughters of Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, the Brothers Grimm, and Angela Carter. \u003ci\u003eFantastic Women\u003c\/i\u003e assembles the work of eighteen inventive, insightful women authors who steep their narratives in a heady potion of surrealism and macabre black comedy. The results are wildly creative stories that capture the truth about human nature far more than much of the fiction (or, for that matter, the nonfiction) being written today. Why just women? More and more women writers are creating work that not only pushes the envelope but also folds realistic fiction into an origami dragon, transporting readers into worlds we’ve never seen before and digging deeper into the psychic bedrock than their male counterparts. So slip into a pocket universe, drive through a family’s home, awake in the night to find you’ve become a deer, and dive into the ocean to join your mermaid mother. We can’t imagine ever wanting to escape this spellbinding world, but if you must, best leave a trail of crumbs along your way.\u003cb\u003eRob Spillman\u003c\/b\u003e was editor of Tin House magazine and executive editor of Tin House Books. He was previously the monthly book columnist for \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and is a contributor of book reviews and essays to \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e and Bookforum. He has written for the \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sun, the Boston Review, British GQ, Connoisseur, Details, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Premiere, Rolling Stone, Spin, Sports Illustrated, SPY, Vanity Fair, Vogue, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Worth, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other magazines, newspapers, and online magazines. He has also worked for Random House, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The New Yorker.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoy Williams\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Quick and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently \u003ci\u003eHarrow\u003c\/i\u003e, five collections of stories, including \u003ci\u003eConcerning the Future of Souls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eIll Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honors are the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the Paris Review’s Hadada Award, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which she was elected in 2008. She lives in Arizona and Wyoming.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233163030757,"sku":"NP9781935639107","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781935639107.jpg?v=1767726710","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fantasic-women-isbn-9781935639107","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}