{"product_id":"the-pillow-museum-stories-9781573662093","title":"The Pillow Museum: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of 56 flash fictions, micro-essays, and contemporary fables about the burden on women and families\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pillow Museum\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of 56 flash fictions, micro-essays, and contemporary fables set in various simulacra of our world. Claire Bateman's gorgeous prose captures the imagination with closely observed details of people and places that are startlingly familiar yet unreal, where nothing can be taken for granted, including narrative logic: \"It was snowing the night they had the fight about the glass piano whose music provided all the light in the house.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In an authoritative voice that offers no apologies or justifications, \u003ci\u003eThe Pillow Museum\u003c\/i\u003e evokes a closely observed slipstream strangeness that refuses to take any moment or detail for granted--a fruitful, delirious disruption. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573662093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d","brand":"Claire Bateman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45017777143989,"sku":"9781573662093","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fd4581ec-2974-4d0c-bf20-ccd810c8e6bd.jpg?v=1736832818","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-pillow-museum-stories-9781573662093","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}