{"product_id":"manywhere-stories-paperback","title":"Manywhere: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMorgan Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE, THE \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eART SIEDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION, THE 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY PRIZE FOR TRANSGENDER FICTION, AND THE 2023 PUBLISHING TRIANGLE EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These breathlessly imaginative stories are all the more remarkable for the elegant, organic ways in which the author unhooks language from its entrenched assumptions about men and women.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorgan Thomas's \u003ci\u003eManywhere \u003c\/i\u003efeatures lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geographical borders and gender binaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe nine stories in Morgan Thomas's shimmering debut collection witness Southern queer and genderqueer characters determined to find themselves reflected in the annals of history, whatever the cost. As Thomas's subjects trace deceit and violence through Southern tall tales and their own pasts, their journeys reveal the porous boundaries of body, land, and history, and the sometimes ruthless awakenings of self-discovery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA trans woman finds her independence with the purchase of a pregnancy bump; a young Virginian flees their relationship, choosing instead to immerse themself in the life of an intersex person from Colonial-era Jamestown. A writer tries to evade the murky and violent legacy of an ancestor who supposedly disappeared into a midwifery bag, and in the uncanny title story, a young trans person brings home a replacement daughter for their elderly father. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinding between reinvention and remembrance, transition and transcendence, these origin stories resound across centuries. With warm, meticulous emotional intelligence, Morgan Thomas uncovers how the stories we borrow to understand ourselves in turn shape the people we become. Ushering in a new form of queer mythmaking, \u003ci\u003eManywhere \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces a storyteller of uncommon range and talent.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorgan Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStoryQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, where their story won the 2019 Fiction Prize. They are the recipient of the Judith A. Markowitz Award from Lambda Literary, a Bread Loaf Work-Study Grant, a Fullbright grant, the Penny Wilkes Scholarship in Writing and the Environment, and the inaugural Southern Studies Fellowship in Arts and Letters. They have also received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Arctic Circle. \u003ci\u003eManywhere \u003c\/i\u003eis their first book. A graduate of the University of Oregon MFA program, they live in Portland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42096728998023,"sku":"9781250863027","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e169d6b0c8178ef9b2d9b3e117c1acf1.webp?v=1732344516","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/manywhere-stories-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}