{"product_id":"craft-by-ananda-lima-9781250292971","title":"Craft","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStrange, intimate, haunted, and hungry—\u003cem\u003eCraft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil\u003c\/em\u003e is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An astounding new voice.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -ERIC LaROCCA \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"I love it so much.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -KELLY LINK \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"Trippy, eerie, wry, and always profound.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -JOHN KEENE \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"Incredible. Truly wondrous.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -KEVIN WILSON \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"Heart-wrenching and wickedly funny.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -GWEN KIRBY \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"Propulsive, uncanny, and expertly built.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -JULIA FINE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they'll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences—of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging—and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith humour, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as \u003cem\u003e\"singular and wise and fresh\"\u003c\/em\u003e (Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCraft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil\u003c\/em\u003e includes: \"Rapture,\" \"Ghost Story,\" \"Tropicália,\" \"Antropógaga,\" \"Idle Hands,\" \"Rent,\" \"Porcelain,\" \"Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,\" and \"Hasselblad.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA great next read for fans of Carmen Maria Machado's \u003cem\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/em\u003e and V. E. Schwab's \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecommended reading by Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, and more!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48241034854636,"sku":"9781250292971","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250292971-craft-1.jpg?v=1787931489","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/craft-by-ananda-lima-9781250292971","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}