{"product_id":"hour-of-the-crab-9781773101606","title":"Hour of the Crab","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatricia Robertson's new collection of short fiction, \u003ci\u003eHour of the Crab\u003c\/i\u003e, is a work of insight and mastery, each story demonstrating an original vision, intriguing characters, and sophisticated skill. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will travel with Robertson's vivid characters, sharing their journeys, their challenges, their complicated choices. They will also discover other worlds -- from an eleventh-century monastery in France to a near-future British Columbia where apocalyptic wildfires seem to be never-ending. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young woman discovers the corpse of a Moroccan teenager washed up on the beach in southern Spain and sets out to find his family in a gesture that destabilizes her own. An international aid worker shares her house with the very real ghost of a gardener's boy. The last speaker of a dying Norse-like language carves the words he remembers into the stones of his house. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrgent and evocative, immersed in issues of our time, the stories of \u003ci\u003eHour of the Crab\u003c\/i\u003e reveal Robertson's ability to draw in her readers with the heightened realism of her imagined worlds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773101606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248","brand":"Patricia Robertson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38350665384117,"sku":"9781773101606","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5a2258ed-1c1f-4968-8858-b6ecb3f54dcb.jpg?v=1611645736","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hour-of-the-crab-9781773101606","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}