{"product_id":"9781963108064","title":"Hellions","description":"\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2026 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2026 Southern Book Prize \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Month\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I am obsessed with these lush, feral stories.\"―Carmen Maria Machado, author of \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautiful, visceral, surprising stories, both wild and dangerous, with a Southern twang but universal appeal. Elliott is an Angela Carter for our times.”―Jeff VanderMeer, author of \u003ci\u003eAbsolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wilds\u003c\/i\u003e comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript, pining for Christ’s love. During a long, muggy July in rural South Carolina, an adolescent girl finds unexpected power as her family obsesses over the horror film \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/i\u003e. On the outskirts of a Southern college town, a young woman resists the tyranny of a shape-shifting older professor as she develops her own sorceress skills. And at a feminist art colony in the North Carolina mountains, a group of mothers contends with the supernatural talents their children have picked up from a pair of mysterious orphans who live in the woods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith exuberance, ferocity, and astounding imagination, Julia Elliott’s \u003ci\u003eHellions\u003c\/i\u003e jumps from the occult to the comic, from the horrific to the wondrous, presenting earthbound characters who long for the otherworldly.","brand":"Julia Elliott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47564116394196,"sku":"9781963108064","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b012d67e-3c4c-424e-b235-2d075042659a.jpg?v=1771379962","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781963108064","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}