{"product_id":"things-you-should-know-a-collection-of-stories-isbn-9780060520137","title":"Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Haunting, disturbing, often radiantly intense, these protean stories change shape as if they are made of fire. They are on the side of things lost, they are pushed by the emergency of our lives–yet in the dazzle of their language there is a wonderful stillness, and consolation.\" —Andrea Barrett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this stunningly original collection, A. M. Homes writes with terrifying compassion about the things that matter most. Homes's distinctive narrative illuminates our dreams and desires, our memories and losses, and demonstrates how extraordinary the ordinary can be. With uncanny emotional accuracy, wit, and empathy, Homes takes us places we recognize but would rather not go alone.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn this stunningly original collection, A. M. Homes writes with terrifying compassion about the things that matter most. Homes's distinctive narrative illuminates our dreams and desires, our memories and losses, and demonstrates how extraordinary the ordinary can be. With uncanny emotional accuracy, wit, and empathy, Homes takes us places we recognize but would rather not go alone.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Haunting, disturbing, often radiantly intense, these protean stories change shape as if they are made of fire. They are on the side of things lost, they are pushed by the emergency of our lives--yet in the dazzle of their language there is a wonderful stillness, and consolation.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Barrett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Haunting, disturbing, often radiantly intense, these protean stories change shape as if they are made of fire.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Barrett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A. M. Homes is certainly among the most important young writers working now.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A savagely funny read, both unnerving and irresistible.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Price\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A.M. Homes finds mystery without special effects or exotic underbellies. We get a tour through the action adventure of everyday fantasies. Many of Homes’s characters lead two lives, one on God’s most conventional little acre, one in some alternate universe.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMirabella\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Homes is confident and consistent in her odd departures from life as we know it, sustaining credibility by getting details right. A fully engaged imagination [is] at work—and at play.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmy Hempel, Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A.M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Cunningham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Here Homes approaches the art of the great absurdists. Strangeness becomes a revealing back entrance into the human condition of our day.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A lavishly imagintive story collection... with high drama and killer comic dialogue....Twelve years after the release of THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS, Homes’ return to short fiction is a gift.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Perversely hilarious yet also poignant, this collection finds Homes at her creepiest, but most chilling is how much one begins to identify with her characters’ sense of alienation.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs in her previous books (”Music for Torching,” “The Safety of Objects,”) Homes is interested in the ways families fail and the ways our expectations of some of life’s most ineluctable aspects - family, home - doom us to feelings of incompleteness. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In several of the stories Homes creates characters whose conflicts are believable and affecting, whose progress toward limited resolution engages our attention, whose emotions intensify as the story progresses, and who do not live in airless self-absorption but have some connection to the world.... These tales are realistic and psychologically astute.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A wondrous, terrifying book that draws out the confusion and violence under the surface of contemporary middle-class life. A. M. Homes is certainly among the most important young writers working now, and her new book is dazzling.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887575888101,"sku":"NP9780060520137","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060520137.jpg?v=1730226996","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/things-you-should-know-a-collection-of-stories-isbn-9780060520137","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}