{"product_id":"half-lives-9781637680919","title":"Half-Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lynn Schmeidler\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Autumn House Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Autumn House Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Rising Writer Prize, \u003ci\u003eHalf-Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is a playful debut short story collection imagining women's lives in a world free of social limitations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler's collection is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on women's bodies and psyches. Lively and experimental, these sixteen stories explore girlhood, sexuality, motherhood, identity, and aging in a world where structures of societal norms, narrative, gender, and sometimes even physics do not apply. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe protagonists grapple with the roles they choose and with those that are thrust upon them as they navigate their ever-evolving emotional lives: A woman lists her vagina on Airbnb, Sleeping Beauty is a yoga teacher who lies in state on the dais of her mother's studio, and a museum intern writes a confession of her affair in the form of a hijacked museum audio guide\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Autumn House Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45045182660759,"sku":"9781637680919","price":1019.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781637680919.webp?v=1768544085","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/half-lives-9781637680919","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}