{"product_id":"catastrophe-a-novella-9781680032734","title":"Catastrophe: A Novella","description":"At fourteen, two schoolgirls slit their palms with safety scissors and promised to be in each other's lives forever. One, with a small spark of magical power, can hear her friend's thoughts even as she rebels, runs away, and ends up in a chrome trailer in a desert. The other hears nothing, but still addresses her thoughts to her lost friend as she gets married, has a baby, and tries to build a stable life. When catastrophe hits the world, the desert woman takes in a gangly girl and tries to use her small power to stave off a doomsday church waiting for rain, a mean-spirited ex-girlfriend, and hopelessness that things will ever improve. The other woman flees with her family to a rich uncle's cabin in the woods. When a scraggly stranger shows up asking for shelter, the woman is torn between safety and compassion, especially when she finds out there's a gun in the garage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eCatastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI am in the desert and I can still hear your thoughts. The desert is red at dawn. The sand is red and coarse and my heart still loves you, sort of, a lot. There is a lizard's footprint, there is a spider's broken web, there is a cactus' two inch spine. I am not in the desert because of the catastrophe. I am not in isolation because it is recommended. I am in the desert because I love the indigo sky. I tilt my face up to its great expanse, and the sky takes me in.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680032734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186","brand":"Deirdre Danklin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41993162227893,"sku":"9781680032734","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0fee34e1-ed93-493f-8985-1da5744dc6b6.jpg?v=1648524109","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/catastrophe-a-novella-9781680032734","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}