{"product_id":"half-lives-paperback","title":"Half-Lives - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLynn Schmeidler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA playful debut short story collection imagining women's lives in a world free of social limitations.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler's debut short story collection, \u003ci\u003eHalf-Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on women's bodies and psyches. Playful and experimental, these sixteen stories explore girlhood, sexuality, motherhood, identity, and aging in a world where structures of societal norms, narrative, gender, and sometimes even physics do not apply. The protagonists grapple with the roles they choose and with those that are thrust upon them as they navigate their ever-evolving emotional lives. A woman lists her vagina on Airbnb, Sleeping Beauty is a yoga teacher who lies in state on the dais of her mother's studio, and a museum intern writes a confession of her affair in the form of a hijacked museum audio guide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHalf-Lives \u003c\/i\u003eis the 2023 Rising Writer Prize winner, selected by Matt Bell. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynn Schmeidler\u003c\/b\u003e's fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKR Online\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications, and she won the 2023 BOMB Fiction Contest for her short story \"InventEd.\" She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is the author of the poetry book \u003ci\u003eHistory of Gone\u003c\/i\u003e and two poetry chapbooks, \u003ci\u003eWrack Lines\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCuriouser \u0026amp; Curiouser\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in the Hudson Valley. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 166\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 7.96 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695489224767,"sku":"9781637680919","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c319395139a68c6d4052c72980cc62bf.webp?v=1765003962","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/half-lives-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}