{"product_id":"the-oldest-bitch-alive","title":"The Oldest Bitch Alive","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Oldest Bitch Alive\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMorgan Day\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781662603372\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAstra House\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e208\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Captivating . . . A work of quiet and yet spirited exhilaration.\" --Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Known World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor fans of Sigrid Nunez's \u003ci\u003eThe Friend\u003c\/i\u003e and Nicholson Baker's \u003ci\u003eThe Mezzanine\u003c\/i\u003e, a polyphonic debut following an aging French bulldog and the parasitic worms that send her toward death -- a singular, sly novel about form, freedom, interiors, and the matter by which we are composed and consumed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGelsomina is a French Bulldog who leads a routine life in a glass house. One day, she ingests an orb of parasitic worms who make an imperfect home inside her. Approaching death, yet filled with new life, she begins to see everything differently: her attachment to the designer-architect couple with whom she lives; the naive preoccupations of their younger French Bulldog, Zampanò; her feelings for an elusive fox; and the voids within and beyond her. The worms propel Gelsomina to plumb the meaning of her domestic existence and ask if her rebirth lies in the wild unknown outside the panes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Oldest Bitch Alive\u003c\/i\u003e is a polyphonic story of containment refracting across scales. Revolving perspectives meditate on consciousness, theories of everything, multispecies narratives, philosophies of form and the immaterial, and other ways in which matter is composed and consumed. Gelsomina's introspections culminate in an ecstatic sprint through a natural world she's never seen, awakening the French Bulldog to the depths of love, reverence, death, and the bound self in dichromatic color.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Astra House","offers":[{"title":"The Oldest Bitch Alive | Morgan Day | Hardcover | 9781662603372 | New | Fiction 1734652","offer_id":48775193198744,"sku":"1734652","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81nljNOMfkL.jpg?v=1774450874","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-oldest-bitch-alive","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}