{"title":"Anne Germanacos","description":"\u003cspan\u003eAnne Germanacos is the author of two short-story collections \u003cem\u003eIn the Time of the Girls\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA, 2010), and \u003cem\u003eTribute\u003c\/em\u003e (Rescue Press, 2016). Together with her husband, Nick Germanacos, she ran the Ithaka Cultural Studies Program on the islands of Kalymnos and Crete. She runs the Germanacos Foundation in San Francisco. For more information about Anne Germanacos, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.annegermanacos.com\/\"\u003ewww.annegermanacos.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"in-the-time-of-the-girls","title":"In the Time of the Girls","description":"\u003ch5\u003eSigned copies available in limited supply\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe stories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein Germanacos’ debut collection are heavily informed by her life in Greece. Several of her characters’ names - such as Artemis, Hera, Odysseus, and Penelope - will be familiar to fans of Greek mythology. \u003c\/span\u003eAnd Germanacos’ stories are often just as strange and tragic as the myths they riff on. In one story, a middle-aged woman with a checkered past falls in love with the epileptic kindergartner next-door. In another, a contemporary Oedipus, living with his mother in a house full of cats, is cured of his blindness while a neighbor woman’s head boils on a stove up the street. There’s a treatise on monsters. A Bulgarian migrant cleaning woman whose gold teeth turn silver. A herd of goats gnawing on notepads stolen from a \u003cplace w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003ccity w:st=\"on\"\u003eNew York City\u003c\/city\u003e\u003c\/place\u003e hotel.  And a man called Adam who paints scenes on his partner Eve’s back while the baby they retrieved from a dump crawls toward them with a dripping diaper.\u003cspan style=\"font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing a spare, image-laden prose style, Germanacos’ focuses on discrete, telling moments to create fast-paced stories that pack a powerful punch. This is not your standard short story collection – it is an innovative work of literary prose as brilliant, concise, and potent as a bolt of lightning. \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8420103237,"sku":"978-1-934414-38-5","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":12465476534353,"sku":"978-1-934414-38-6","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/IN_THE_TIME_OF_THE_GIRLS.jpg?v=1527683281"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/115.1277318624.jpeg?v=1449014569","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/anne-germanacos.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}