{"product_id":"wild-failure-stories","title":"Wild Failure: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling debut collection of ten powerful, feminist, and queer short stories from bestselling author Zoe Whittall\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Absorbing and wrenchingly intimate, with a rare balance of wit and tenderness.\"--Jenny Fran Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eDykette\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWild Failure, \u003c\/i\u003e characters encounter feelings of shame, desire, attachment, and disconnection as they find themselves navigating their way through bad decisions, unusual situations, and fraught relationships. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Failure\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Zoe Whittall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46348949979372,"sku":"9780593499917","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780593499917.jpg?v=1744142672","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/wild-failure-stories","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}