{"product_id":"the-measure-of-sorrow-stories-9781946154774","title":"The Measure of Sorrow: Stories","description":"Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith's first collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Measure of Sorrow, \u003c\/i\u003e draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncle's insanity; a suburban neighbourhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband's unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn. Intelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Measure of Sorrow \u003c\/i\u003eelude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Meerkat Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946154774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w","brand":"J. Ashley-Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42835643072693,"sku":"9781946154774","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_551c6258-eac7-4b79-9d48-e2fbe661f9f4.jpg?v=1681225111","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-measure-of-sorrow-stories-9781946154774","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}