{"product_id":"sea-beast-takes-a-lover-paperback","title":"SEA BEAST TAKES A LOVER (Paperback)","description":"\u003cb\u003e“This debut author rightfully earns his place on the storytelling totem pole with this wildly original short story collection.”\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eDazzling and delightful, with its feet only slightly tethered to the world we know, \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Beast Takes a Lover e\u003c\/i\u003explores family, faith, and longing through a kaleidoscope of surreal landscapes and spellbinding characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndreasen's stories unfold in wildly inventive worlds that invite the supernatural into our familiar routines: in “Bodies in Space,” an extramarital affair is rudely interrupted by an alien abduction, while in “Blunderbuss,” a third-grade class takes an ill-advised field trip to a floundering time travel institute. “Jenny” follows a reluctant caretaker's attempts to manage his kind-hearted headless sister, and in the title story, a group of sailors find their ship commandeered by an aggressively lovestruck kraken.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRomping through the fantastic with bighearted ease, these stories uncover a universal yearning for connection in seldom-explored spaces, revealing that aliens can help us think about loss, that time travel is just another way to talk about guilt, and that sea monsters may have a thing or two to teach us about love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a captivating new voice from an immensely talented storyteller, \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Beast Takes a Lover\u003c\/i\u003e uses the odd, the extraordinary, and the miraculous to expose us at our most profoundly and hilariously human.","brand":"Andreasen, Michael","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337134502162,"sku":"9781101986639","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/9328193482580_a79949fa-7403-407c-bb9a-07d926280bad.jpg?v=1780433861","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/sea-beast-takes-a-lover-paperback","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}