{"product_id":"the-box","title":"The Box","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eA stylistically dazzling novel about things, people, and the forces and seams between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOf course, each thing has its own sides to every story. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow, a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness to this event, a self-described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people, to pick up the box and chase after the stranger who dropped it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e follows a rectangular cuboid as it changes hands in a collapsing metropolis, causing confluences, conflicts, rifts, and disasters. Different narrators, each with a distinctive voice, give accounts of decisive moments in the box’s life. From the anthrophobe to a newly hired curator of a renowned art collection to a couple who own an antiquarian bookshop to a hotel bartender hiding from a terrible past, the storytellers repeat rumors and rely on faulty memories, grasping at a thing that continually escapes them. Haunting their secondhand recollections is one mysterious woman who, convinced of the box’s good or evil powers, pursues it with deadly desperation.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eA mesmerizing, intricately constructed puzzle of a novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e challenges our understanding of subjects and objects, of cause and effect. Is it only humans who have agency? What is or isn’t animate? What do we value and what do we discard? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Long Story Short","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48342553395455,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/5672\/1151\/files\/Screenshot_514_56482911-f2b7-4620-9d59-247589c88b33.png?v=1775749400","url":"https:\/\/www.longstoryshort.life\/products\/the-box","provider":"Long Story Short","version":"1.0","type":"link"}