{"product_id":"the-bigness-of-the-world-1","title":"The Bigness of the World: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Lori Ostlund’s debut collection people seeking escape from situations at home venture out into a world that they find is just as complicated and troubled as the one they left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn prose highlighted by both satire and poignant observation, Ostlund offers characters that represent a different sort of everyman—men and women who poke fun at ideological rigidity while holding fast to good grammar and manners, people seeking connections in a world that seems increasingly foreign. In ?Upon Completion of Baldness? a young woman shaves her head for a part in a movie in Hong Kong that will help her escape life with her lover in Albuquerque. The precocious narrator of ?All Boy? finds comfort when he is locked in a closet by a babysitter. In ?Dr. Deneau’s Punishment? a math teacher leaving New York for Minnesota as a means of punishing himself engages in an unsettling method of discipline. A lesbian couple whose relationship is disintegrating flees to the Moroccan desert in ?The Children beneath the Seat.? And in ?Idyllic Little Bali? a group of Americans gathers around a pool in Java to discuss their brushes with fame and ends up witnessing a man’s fatal flight from his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the eleven stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Bigness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e we see that wherever you are in the world, where you came from is never far away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46315460133074,"sku":"9780820336886","price":34.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_a69ffed5-aa29-4953-bd2d-870c2203d662.jpg?v=1762620164","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/the-bigness-of-the-world-1","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}