{"product_id":"bad-handwriting-9781948830553","title":"Bad Handwriting","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eFour by Four\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmong the Hedges\u003c\/i\u003e comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and loneliness; alienated young girls whose rebellion lies under the surface--subterranean, furious and impotent; people who are tormented--or not--by regret and doubt, addicted to feelings of culpability; men who take advantage of women and adults who exercise power over children with a disturbing degree of control; kids abandoned by their parents; the suicide of the elderly and the young; lives that hide crimes--both real and imagined. Eschewing cosmopolitanism in favor of the micro-world of her characters, Mesa depicts a reality that is messy and disturbing, on even the smallest scale of an individual life, a single family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948830553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208","brand":"Sara Mesa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42159491547317,"sku":"9781948830553","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1e83fef1-c1c8-45a1-b583-4df6cbff2aa7.jpg?v=1653968691","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bad-handwriting-9781948830553","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}