{"product_id":"the-measure-of-sorrow-by-j-ashley-smith-9781946154774","title":"The Measure of Sorrow","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith's first collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Measure of Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncle's insanity; a suburban neighbourhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband's unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in \u003cem\u003eThe Measure of Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e elude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487621595372,"sku":"9781946154774","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6cecbf1fb3f2e814e91dd3d1c769efec.jpg?v=1775772185","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-measure-of-sorrow-by-j-ashley-smith-9781946154774","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}