{"product_id":"god-disease","title":"God Disease","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Manuel Muñoz.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImagine a space where cities and municipalities are delineated only by letters. A place in flux, a freewheeling confluence that does not commit to being American, Korea, or even Korean American. This is where \u003ci\u003eGod-Disease\u003c\/i\u003e takes place. Strange things happen here. Identities warp and shift; sometimes they vanish altogether. In the titular story, a museum insect curator returns to her birth town, J Municipality, feeling empty and searching for answers to her mother’s absence; was it insanity that plagued her, or was it shin-byeong—god-disease? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEqual parts Southern Korean Gothic and slipstream, the collection is a meditation on language, identity, and names, and how deceptively fragile they can be.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395805946238,"sku":"NW9781956046335","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781956046335.jpg?v=1778626299","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/god-disease","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}