{"product_id":"the-hanged-man-paperback","title":"The Hanged Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatherine Conner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the surreal landscape of the deep south, three Lebanese-American sisters encounter their missing mother six years after she vanished from their lives. Georgia, now a ghost tour guide in the French Quarter, spots her mother's face in the crowd of tour-goers. Virginia, a receptionist at a mental health facility in Mississippi, is sure her mother walks in one day and asks to be committed. Louise, a relay operator in Birmingham, hears her mother's voice late one night on the line. Each of these encounters is fleeting, almost ghostly, ambiguous. Is it really her, their mother, the woman who packed their grandmother's trousseau and walked out of their lives without a word all those years ago? Or is she a vision, a ghost, no more than a memory? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteeped in the Southern Gothic tradition, in the vein of Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Jesmyn Ward, this atmospheric collection of linked stories explores our complex relationship with loss and our desperate search for meaning.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine Conner is a Lebanese-American writer from Mississippi. Her collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Hanged Man\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award, the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, and the Iron Horse Literary Review First Book Prize. Her short stories have appeared in several literary magazines, including \u003ci\u003eWest Branch, Pembroke Magazine, Willow Springs, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Fugue, Surreal South, The Chattahoochee Review, The Portland Review, Raleigh Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48363277484253,"sku":"9781625572219","price":24.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/lJFP3O1WjP9781625572219.webp?v=1786550376","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-hanged-man-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}