{"product_id":"the-running-trees-stories-9781773101699","title":"The Running Trees: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Amber McMillan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction) \u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fervently comic debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Running Trees\u003c\/i\u003e leads readers into a series of conversations -- through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation -- to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe relationship between two siblings disintegrates after one asks the other for \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e pen; a professor and his former student get drinks years after a \"romantic\" encounter; a book club meets only to find that they have wildly different opinions about a new memoir about their town; and a long-haired feline contemplates existence and consciousness while his cohabitant licks his own butthole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhimsical, unconventional, humorous, and always pitch-perfect, \u003ci\u003eThe Running Trees\u003c\/i\u003e explores how we desperately try to communicate with each other amid the gaps in meaning we create.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46289613389975,"sku":"9781773101699","price":1943.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781773101699.webp?v=1767700312","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-running-trees-stories-9781773101699","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}