{"product_id":"craft-3","title":"Craft","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStrange, intimate, haunted, and hungry—\u003ci\u003eCraft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil \u003c\/i\u003eis an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Remarkable and memorable.\" \u003c\/b\u003e—OLIVIE BLAKE •\u003cb\u003e “An astounding new voice.” \u003c\/b\u003e—ERIC LaROCCA • \u003cb\u003e\"I love it so much.” \u003c\/b\u003e—KELLY LINK • \u003cb\u003e“Trippy, eerie, wry, and always profound.”\u003c\/b\u003e —JOHN KEENE • \u003cb\u003e“Incredible. Truly wondrous.” \u003c\/b\u003e—KEVIN WILSON • \u003cb\u003e\"Heart-wrenching and wickedly funny.\" \u003c\/b\u003e—GWEN KIRBY • \u003cb\u003e“Propulsive, uncanny, and expertly built.”\u003c\/b\u003e —JULIA FINE  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they’ll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences–of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging—and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith humor, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as “singular and wise and fresh” (Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCraft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil includes: “Rapture,” “Ghost Story,” “Tropicália,” “Antropógaga,” “Idle Hands,” “Rent,” “Porcelain,” “Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,” and “Hasselblad.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA great next read for fans of Carmen Maria Machado''s \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties \u003c\/i\u003eand V. E. Schwab''s \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecommended reading by \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and more!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57447524893054,"sku":"NW9781250292988","price":13.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781250292988.jpg?v=1779352049","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/craft-3","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}