{"product_id":"alligator","title":"Alligator","description":"\u003cp\u003eA man falls to his death at a construction site, triggering a butterfly effect of connections among complete strangers … a woman house-sitting a summer house unintentionally opens a portal of demons in the wall while meditating … a young boy, after the death of his father, follows his grief-stricken mother each night as she sleepwalks … an elusive, shapeshifting image of an alligator washes through the half-dreamed, half-real experiences of, possibly, the last moments of a life…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-spacer\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAlligator\u003c\/em\u003e, David Ryan’s experiments in language and form produce 23 stark, lyrical stories that explore the human condition. Kaleidoscopic, surprising, and occasionally shocking, Ryan’s liminal realism shifts between incantatory parables and a hard-scrabble, fractured reality, rooted in the deep, visceral logic of memory, wild impulse, and dream. \u003cem\u003eAlligator\u003c\/em\u003e‘s stories collect desire, dislocation of family, love, and estrangement into a brutalist architecture—where occasional sharp eruptions of chaos co-exist with hope and grace.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-spacer\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-spacer\"\u003e[publishers’ note]\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"C4g Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358293729620,"sku":"A8B-37133","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/alligator.jpg?v=1790814765","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/alligator","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}