{"product_id":"9781416539025","title":"The Mother Garden Stories","description":"Robin Romm's arresting and resonant stories take on the fundamental themes of the human condition: mortality, loyalty, and love. In fresh and irreverent prose, Romm captures the mo-ments before and after loss, mining the depths of grief with wit and grace.\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \"The Mother Garden\" are at once vividly realistic and infused with the bizarre -- a man uses a chicken egg to test whether he is ready for fatherhood; a daughter plants a garden of mothers to replace her own; a family's ghosts literally fall through the ceiling, disrupting daily life; a woman finds her father sleeping in the desert after twenty-six years of living without him. People stumble in relationships, start families, struggle with illness, learn to mourn -- and as in life, these acts are consuming, magical, and disorienting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharply funny and deeply moving, this extraordinary collection introduces a young writer of fierce originality and prodigious talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Outliers Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53028218503479,"sku":null,"price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/3633\/0295\/files\/9243573482692.jpg?v=1790118767","url":"https:\/\/outliersbooks.shop\/products\/9781416539025","provider":"Outliers Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}