{"product_id":"invisibilia-stories-9781639822218","title":"Invisibilia: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom Howard's award-winning debut short story collection, \u003cem\u003eFierce Pretty Things\u003c\/em\u003e, won accolades for blending \"raw emotion with surreal forays into the supernatural and metaphysical.\" With his second collection, \u003cem\u003eInvisibilia\u003c\/em\u003e, Howard takes the reader on a mesmerizing ride through a haunting, haunted landscape of children, drifters, soldiers, lovers, and ghosts, and the unseen forces that shape their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo sisters and their parents slowly disappear, each in their own way, after a universe-shaking decision; a young solder returns broken from Vietnam to his hometown, where he must follow a set of mystifying instructions as part of a peculiar homecoming ritual; the father of an emotionally estranged teen tries to reconnect with his son through the wonder of nature and the spectacle of a bloody, nightmarish parade; a sweet but disfigured actor, renowned for the monsters he once played, seeks one final, redemptive role at the end of his career; and otherworldly scavengers haunt a city's rooftops, feeding on the memories and the stories of the dead. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these deftly crafted narratives, Tom Howard opens a window into a world that's at times wildly strange, funny, sad, and absurd, but always achingly, helplessly human. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Slant Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639822218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Tom Howard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52452317593781,"sku":"9781639822218","price":30.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fcd778de-34e5-4761-a816-e7630b45d4fa.jpg?v=1776826713","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/invisibilia-stories-9781639822218","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}