{"product_id":"fifty-beasts-to-break-your-heart","title":"Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart - And Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR \u003cb\u003e• \u003c\/b\u003eFrom the author of the breakout novel \u003ci\u003eThistlefoot:\u003c\/i\u003e a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us—or go monstrously wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Real magic, real delight, doled out generously in the shape of wistful, ferocious, this-world-but-better stories.”—Kelly Link, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Cat, Black Dog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eFifty Beasts to Break Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secrets—and their own doomed summer love. A zombie rooster plays detective in a missing persons case. A woman moves into a new house with her acclaimed artist boyfriend—and finds her body slowly shifting into something specially constructed to accommodate his needs and whims. A pack of middle schoolers turn to the occult to rid themselves of a hated new classmate. And a pair of outcasts, a vampire and a goat woman, find solace in each other, even as the world's lack of understanding might bring about its own end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these lush, strange, beautifully written stories, GennaRose Nethercott explores human longing in all its diamond-dark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beast, and make you beg to have your heart broken.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51305323594016,"sku":"9780593314180","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780593314180.jpg?v=1772757079","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/fifty-beasts-to-break-your-heart","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}