{"product_id":"book-dwcg","title":"Life Among the Terranauts","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the “enthralling” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) and “beautiful” (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) debut novel The Vexations comes an exciting new story collection that is “perfect for fans of George Saunders and Karen Russell” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e), moving boldly between the real and the surreal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing her “marvelous” (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) first novel, Caitlin Horrocks returns with a much-anticipated collection of short stories. In her signature, genre-defying style, she explodes our notions of what a story can do and where it can take us. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife Among the Terranauts\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates all the inventiveness that won admirers for Horrocks’s first collection. In “The Sleep,” reprinted in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, residents of a town in the frigid Midwest decide to hibernate through the bitter winters. In the title story, half a dozen people move into an experimental biodome for a shot at a million dollars, if they can survive two years. And in “Sun City,” published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003ea young woman meets her grandmother’s roommate in the wake of her death and attempts to solve the mystery of whether the two women were lovers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e noted of her first collection, Horrocks is a master of “wild yet delicately handled satire,” a “sprightly heartbreak” in which she is able to “mingle a note of tenderness in the desolation.” With its startling range—from Norwegian trolls to Peruvian tour guides—\u003ci\u003eLife Among the Terranauts \u003c\/i\u003eonce again dazzles readers, cementing Horrocks’s reputation as one of the premier young writers of our time.","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49348914774320,"sku":"BDdwcg","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dwcg-cover.jpg?v=1759793442","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dwcg","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}