{"product_id":"bad-houses-1","title":"Bad Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003eA boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humorous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Alice Munro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the surreal, often precarious realities of Bad Houses, a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas's hairdresser strives to keep his secrets, and a young girl develops a fascination with the trolls who harvest her father's pumpkin patch. At once humorous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresent throughout Bad Houses is a deep and abiding sense of humanity sprinkled with a dash of alienation, guilt, and instability. Filtered through a fabulist lens, these stories contemplate the struggles of modern existence. Each character lives their own haunted life, trying to navigate the path from bad houses to good homes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing Stintzi's own expressive ink illustrations, Bad Houses is a book that feels like it was penned by a trans Alice Munro mixed with a bubblier Franz Kafka. Enter if you dare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giovanni's Room","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018747674935,"sku":"9781551529615","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/9781551529615.jpg?v=1756943903","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/bad-houses-1","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}