{"product_id":"wild-failure-short-stories","title":"Wild Failure: Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dazzling debut collection of ten powerful, feminist, and queer short stories from bestselling author Zoe Whittall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Wild Failure, characters encounter feelings of shame, desire, attachment, and disconnection as they find themselves navigating their way through bad decisions, unusual situations, and fraught relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn “Oh, El” a dominant woman can’t stop herself from toying with the tender heart of her co-worker. The title story, “Wild Failure” is a doomed love story between an agoraphobic and a wilderness hiker. In “Half Pipe” a teen girl’s heterosexual ambivalence results in chaos at a skate park. A group of idealistic roommates find themselves the subject of a true crime podcast in “Murder at the Elm Street Collective House.” In “The Sex Castle Lunch Buffet” a woman reflects on her brief stint at a 90s strip club after she learns of the death of a former client.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWild Failure is replete with Whittall’s perceptive humor and acute insights into human nature. It’s also a dynamic and vibrant collection of poetic fiction that contend with the meaning of desire in a world that devalues femininity and queerness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Long Live the Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45102557462594,"sku":"9781443467193","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/8101\/7666\/files\/9781443467193.jpg?v=1787943077","url":"https:\/\/becksbooksmpls.com\/products\/wild-failure-short-stories","provider":"Long Live the Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}