{"product_id":"the-wonder-garden-paperback","title":"The Wonder Garden - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLauren Acampora\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In 13 sharply drawn linked stories, Acampora reveals the complexities beneath the polish and privilege of a prosperous Connecticut town.\"-\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man strikes an under-the-table deal with a surgeon to spend a few quiet seconds closer to his wife than he's ever been; a young soon-to-be mother looks on in paralyzing astonishment as her husband walks away from a twenty-year career in advertising at the urging of his spirit animal; an elderly artist risks more than he knows when he's commissioned by his newly-arrived neighbors to produce the work of a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her stunning debut collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, Lauren Acampora brings to the page with enchanting realism the myriad lives of a suburban town and lays them bare. These linked stories take a trenchant look at the flawed people of Old Cranbury, incisive tales that reveal at each turn the unseen battles we play out behind drawn blinds, the creeping truths from which we distract ourselves, and the massive dreams we haul quietly with us and hold close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeliciously creepy and masterfully complex \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder Garden\u003c\/i\u003e heralds the arrival of a phenomenal new talent in American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like Wharton, Acampora seems to understand fiction as a kind of elegant design.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Acampora is a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Wonder Garden\u003c\/i\u003e] is reminiscent of John Cheever in its anatomizing of suburban ennui and of Ann Beattie in its bemused dissection of a colorful cast of eccentrics.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Intelligent, unnerving, and very often strange . . . as irresistible as it is disturbing.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Acampora\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Animal Room, The Hundred Waters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paper Wasp, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder Garden.\u003c\/i\u003e Her work has won or been nominated for the GLCA New Writers Award, the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the Story Prize, and the New England Book Award, and she's been named an Artist Fellow in Fiction by The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the \u003ci\u003eParis Review, One Story, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e and has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53457741578547,"sku":"9780802124814","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/hMRlsUGYub9780802124814.webp?v=1781271765","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wonder-garden-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}