{"product_id":"picnic-in-the-storm-9781472154354b","title":"Picnic in the Storm","description":"A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique - which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon - until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won't come out of the fitting room - and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices that her husband's features are beginning to slide around his face - to match her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIn these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien - and, through it, find a way to liberation. Winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, Picnic in the Storm is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearless young writers.","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822685458512,"sku":"9781472154354B","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781472154354-l.jpg?v=1785889066","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/picnic-in-the-storm-9781472154354b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}