{"product_id":"changing-planes-stories-1","title":"Changing Planes: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Malamud Award for Short Story \u003c\/b\u003e•\u003cb\u003e A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e, in which the narrator visits fifteen planes and describes the people, language and customs with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist.\" \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn these classic \"vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches\" \u003c\/b\u003e(\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e), literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGulliver’s Travels \u003c\/i\u003eto examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning—and mystery—of being human.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she’s found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, a way to skip the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChanging planes—not airplanes, of course, but entire planes of existence—enables Sita to visit societies not found on Earth in a series of unforgettable allegorical tales. As “Sita Dulip’s Method” spreads, the narrator and her acquaintances encounter cultures where the babble of children fades over time into the silence of adults; where whole towns exist solely for holiday shopping; where personalities are ruled by rage; where genetic experiments produce less than desirable results. With “the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist” (\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e), Le Guin takes readers on a truly universal tour in this short story collection, showing through the foreign and alien indelible truths about our own human society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ursula K. Guin","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":55253577466147,"sku":"9780358380023","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780358380023.jpg?v=1781820963","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/changing-planes-stories-1","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}