{"product_id":"wild-failure-stories","title":"Wild Failure: Stories (USED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dazzling debut collection of ten powerful, feminist, and queer short stories from bestselling author Zoe Whittall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Absorbing and wrenchingly intimate, with a rare balance of wit and tenderness.”—Jenny Fran Davis, author of Dykette\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Wild Failure, characters encounter feelings of shame, desire, attachment, and disconnection as they find themselves navigating their way through bad decisions, unusual situations, and fraught relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn “Oh, El,” a dominant woman can’t stop herself from toying with the tender heart of her co-worker. The title story, “Wild Failure,” is a doomed love story between an agoraphobic and a wilderness hiker. In “Half-Pipe,” a teen girl’s heterosexual ambivalence results in chaos at a skate park. A group of idealistic roommates find themselves the subject of a true crime podcast in “Murder at the Elm Street Collective House.” In “The Sex Castle Lunch Buffet,” a woman reflects on her brief stint at a nineties strip club after she learns of the death of a former client.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWild Failure is replete with Whittall’s perceptive humor and acute insights into human nature. It’s also a dynamic and vibrant collection of poetic fiction that contend with the meaning of desire in a world that devalues femininity and queerness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134071488697,"sku":"9780593499917","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0744\/7317\/7273\/files\/9780593499917.jpg?v=1778439857","url":"https:\/\/impossible-moon-bookshop.myshopify.com\/products\/wild-failure-stories","provider":"Impossible Moon Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}