{"product_id":"total-stories-9781250872951","title":"Total: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Miller returns to short fiction for the first time since her prodigious collection of stories, \u003ci\u003ePersonal Velocity\u003c\/i\u003e, with the arresting, darkly prescient \u003ci\u003eTotal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Dublin to Martha's Vineyard, from the anxious comforts of motherhood to a technologically infected near future that mirrors today with dark prescience, each of the seven stories in \u003ci\u003eTotal \u003c\/i\u003eis a world of its own, painted with vivid strokes, whose people and questions stay with the reader long after the story has ended. Joad, one of the first characters we meet, finds onionskin pages crammed in a locked desk drawer while refurbishing a Hudson Valley farmhouse; the terrifying words on the fragile paper haunt Joad and her husband, the woman who wrote them looming over the couple like a malevolent spirit. Her words embody the power of the act of creation and the insidious, untamable force of language once it has left one's pen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eThe Private Lives of Pippa Lee \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJacob's Folly\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as an award-winning filmmaker, Miller has \"the soaring eye of the epicist and the sly instinct of the satirist\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), and her talents are on full display in \u003ci\u003eTotal\u003c\/i\u003e. Each voice and life captured in these haunting stories is unforgettable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250872951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 4.88w x 0.63d","brand":"Rebecca Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924979421365,"sku":"9781250872951","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_10c3b0bc-bd20-43e8-8e95-66d1facd0727.jpg?v=1687842810","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/total-stories-9781250872951","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}