{"product_id":"we-all-need-to-eat-linked-stories","title":"We All Need to Eat: Linked Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe All Need to Eat: Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e is a linked collection that follows Soma, a queer woman in Vancouver, as she grows from childhood into her late thirties. Each story captures a turning point in her life, tracing how family history, desire, and grief shape her search for belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the city’s shifting landscape, the collection moves through breakups and addictions, uneasy family dinners, and small acts of care. Soma tries to manage her mother’s deepening instability, fixating on a lamp that might ease seasonal depression, and wrestles with her complicated bond with her younger brother after leaving home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning beneath these intimate moments is the long shadow of her family’s experience of the Holocaust and the disturbing rise of Alt Right media, showing how inherited trauma collides with contemporary politics. The stories blend lyrical language with gritty detail, refusing easy answers while revealing the tensions and contradictions of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe All Need to Eat\u003c\/strong\u003e will appeal to readers of queer fiction and literary short stories who are drawn to character-driven narratives about identity, mental health, and intergenerational memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Just Great Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45025270137066,"sku":"CAD-16-Shelf-1-ST-5-1-0-10M-0.57lb","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/1735\/7290\/files\/61Pj4cbjUqL.jpg?v=1744487150","url":"https:\/\/justgreatbooks.org\/products\/we-all-need-to-eat-linked-stories","provider":"Just Great Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}