{"product_id":"book-1cbx","title":"Strange Labour","description":"\"With this brilliant debut, Penner thoughtfully upends the tropes of postapocalyptic fiction\" -- Publishers Weekly \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Strange Labour is a powerful meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe that is indifferent to our extinction, and a provocative re-imagining of many of the tropes and clichés that have shaped the post-apocalyptic novel. Most people have deserted the cities and towns to work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks. The only adults unaffected by this mysterious obsession are a dwindling population that live in the margins of a new society they cannot understand. Isolated, in an increasingly deserted landscape, living off the material remnants of the old order, trapped in antiquated habits and assumptions, they struggle to construct a meaningful life for themselves. Miranda, a young woman who travels across what had once been the West, meets Dave, who has peculiar theories about the apocalypse.","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":51195181138224,"sku":"BD1cbx","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1cbx-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773738770","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1cbx","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}