{"product_id":"monster-portraits-sofia-samatar-paperback","title":"Monster Portraits -- Sofia Samatar, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, \u003ci\u003eMonster Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two--texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday--\u003ci\u003eMonster Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDel Samatar's drawings conjure beings who drag worlds in their wake. World Fantasy Award-winning author Sofia Samatar responds with allusive, critical, and ecstatic meditations. Together they have created a secret history of the mixed-race child, a guide to the beasts of an unknown mythos, and a dreamer's iconography. The monstrous never looked so simultaneously haunting and familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sofia Samatar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rose Metal Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.3\" H x 5.9\" L x 0.3\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781941628102\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52241493917995,"sku":"9781941628102","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9781941628102.jpg?v=1771258086","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/monster-portraits-sofia-samatar-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}