{"product_id":"budnitz-judy-nice-big-american-baby-9780007122042","title":"Nice Big American Baby","description":"A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world-and imagination-knows no boundaries. \"I don't know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from,\" said \"Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, \"Flying Leap, \"but I'm happy to have her. Tremendous . . . funny, dark, adventurous, slanted, and enchanted.\" These twelve astonishingly inventive stories-which take us into the heart of America and around the globe, from suburban backyards and swimming pools to war-torn streets and fallout shelters-are riveting, seductive, and impossible to forget. In \"Flush,\" a mammogram prompts a dark comedy of blurred identities between a mother and her two adult daughters. In \"Elephant and Boy,\" a surrogate mother-and-son bond, tinged with the erotic, is formed when a philanthropist attempts to \"civilize\" a young elephant handler. \"Nadia\" sounds the depths of a young woman's complex feelings toward a friend's mail-order bride from Eastern Europe. \"Preparedness\"-an Orwellian tale in Technicolor-imagines rapture in the wake of imminent apocalypse. And in \"Where We Come From,\" a pregnant woman's many failed attempts to cross the border do not lessen her resolve to give birth on U.S. soil to a \"nice big American baby.\" Magical, poignant, often transcendent, these are virtuoso modern fables that mine our stores of hidden urges, misunderstandings, and blind passions, inviting us on a voyage through places and times at once deeply familiar and wondrously strange. \"From the Hardcover edition.","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53190962741590,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780007122042_1_70f81412-0607-40a5-a7ee-b2b5cda6a5c4.jpg?v=1778571833","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/budnitz-judy-nice-big-american-baby-9780007122042","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}