{"product_id":"universal-love-stories","title":"Universal Love: Stories","description":"\u003ch1\u003eUniversal Love: Stories\u003c\/h1\u003eAlexander Weinstein,Alexander Weinstein\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003eJanuary 12 2021\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781250144362\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1250144361\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of \u003ci\u003eChildren of the New World\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversal Love \u003c\/i\u003ewelcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother's hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn an age when technology offers the easiest cures for loneliness, the characters within these stories must wrestle with what it means to stay human in an increasingly cybernetic future, and how love can endure even the most alluring upgrades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the vein of Weinstein's critically-acclaimed first collection, \u003ci\u003eUniversal Love \u003c\/i\u003eis a visionary book, written with one foot in the real world and one stepping bravely into the future.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391393759277,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_4a54c3bd-e3cc-47fb-84ef-0f63303b48fb.jpg?v=1787353937","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/universal-love-stories","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}