{"product_id":"fifty-beasts-to-break-your-heart-and-other-stories","title":"Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eONE OF THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us—or go monstrously wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Real magic, real delight, doled out generously in the shape of wistful, ferocious, this-world-but-better stories.”—Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secrets—and their own doomed summer love. A zombie rooster plays detective in a missing persons case. A woman moves into a new house with her acclaimed artist boyfriend—and finds her body slowly shifting into something specially constructed to accommodate his needs and whims. A pack of middle schoolers turn to the occult to rid themselves of a hated new classmate. And a pair of outcasts, a vampire and a goat woman, find solace in each other, even as the world's lack of understanding might bring about its own end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these lush, strange, beautifully written stories, GennaRose Nethercott explores human longing in all its diamond-dark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beast, and make you beg to have your heart broken.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epilogue Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42599088980045,"sku":"9780593314180","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/1456\/9549\/files\/9780593314180.jpg?v=1768515013","url":"https:\/\/epiloguebookstore.com\/products\/fifty-beasts-to-break-your-heart-and-other-stories","provider":"Epilogue Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}