{"product_id":"catapult-stories-9781946448057","title":"Catapult: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Fridlund writes of families, marriage, and childhood as if our received wisdom--what we thought we knew about life and love and family--needs reparation. This is fiction as excavation, peeling away the machinery of people and converting it to narrative. Fridlund shines a spotlight on what gets hidden and unreported, and the result can be overwhelming--cutting and funny and filled with difficult truth.\" --Ben Marcus, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flame Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fridlund has already proven herself to be a singular talent.\" --NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Ben Marcus as winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e follows Emily Fridlund's acclaimed debut novel \u003ci\u003eHistory of Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e. Sometimes calculating, at other times bewildered, \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e's characters orbit around each other, enacting a deeply human tragicomedy of wit, misunderstanding, and loss. With dexterous, atmospheric, and darkly comic prose, Fridlund conjures worlds where longing is open-ended, intentions misfire, and the line between comfort and cruelty is often difficult to discern. This is a gripping collection, unsettling as much in its familiarity as in its near-gothic strangeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Fridlund\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of journals, including \u003ci\u003eBoston Review, Zyzzyva, Five Chapters, New Orleans Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Fridlund's first novel, \u003ci\u003eHistory of Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e (Atlantic Monthly Press), was a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and a #1 Indie Next pick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946448057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews Fall Preview\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2017 pg. 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2017 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Emily Fridlund","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36672242352284,"sku":"9781946448057","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f30b34ec-44f0-4a7b-ad62-a4d2cde2b40f.jpg?v=1603927282","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/catapult-stories-9781946448057","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}