{"product_id":"stingray","title":"Stingray","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailed by critics, \"Stingray\" has been described by its author as \"a critical biography of my loving mother.\" With his father having abandoned his family for another woman, Se-young and his mother are forced to subsist on their own in the harsh environment of a small Korean farming village in the 1950s. Determined to wait for her husband's return, Se-young's mother hangs a dried stingray on the kitchen doorjamb; to her, it's a reminder of the fact that she still has a husband, and that she must behave as a married woman would, despite all. Also, she claims, when the family is reunited, the fish will be their first, celebratory meal together. But when a beggar girl, Sam-rae, sneaks into their house during a blizzard, the first thing she does is eat the stingray, and what follows is a struggle, at once sentimental and ideological, for the soul of the household.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841281470669,"sku":"9781564789594","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_2030670f-afdc-4e6c-afdd-3dce1b7cca22.jpg?v=1792025845","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/stingray","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}