{"product_id":"half-lives-9781637680919","title":"Half-Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Rising Writer Prize, \u003ci\u003eHalf-Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is a playful debut short story collection imagining women's lives in a world free of social limitations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler's collection is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on women's bodies and psyches. Lively 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynn Schmeidler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.87h x 5.91w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781637680919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynn Schmeidler\u003c\/b\u003e's is the recipient of a Sewanee Writers' Conference Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction and has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. In addition to her short story collection \u003ci\u003eHalf-Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, she has published one poetry book, \u003ci\u003e History of Gone\u003c\/i\u003e (Veliz Books, shortlisted for the Sexton Prize and finalist for the Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize), and two poetry chapbooks, \u003ci\u003eWrack Lines\u003c\/i\u003e (Grayson Books, Finalist for the Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize and the Comstock Review Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Prize) and \u003ci\u003eCuriouser \u0026amp; Curiouser\u003c\/i\u003e (Winner of the Grayson Books Chapbook Prize). She earned a BA from Yale University and an MEd from Lesley College. She lives in the Hudson Valley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Autumn House Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43778327478387,"sku":"9.78164E+12","price":22.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_a972cfa4-511a-4329-82bd-ba56bea68938.jpg?v=1757508511","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/half-lives-9781637680919","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}