{"product_id":"universal-love-by-alexander-weinstein","title":"'Universal Love' by Alexander Weinstein","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"1093\" data-start=\"767\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWritten across near-future and slightly altered worlds where intimacy is shaped by technology, grief, fantasy, loneliness, and desire — but never reduced to concept alone.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1093\" data-start=\"767\"\u003eThese are stories about people trying, often awkwardly and sometimes desperately, to reach one another: through memory, through simulation, through bodies, through the wreckage of ordinary feeling. The speculative edge is there, but lightly handled; what stays in the hand is the emotional atmosphere, the oddness of modern attachment, and the sense that love now arrives tangled up with distance, mediation, and invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1781\" data-start=\"1520\"\u003eGood for readers who like literary short fiction with a speculative tilt — Jenny Offill-adjacent in sensibility, though softer and more romantic in places — or for anyone interested in stories where emotional sincerity and weirdness are allowed to share a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1781\" data-start=\"1520\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback in very good condition. This edition published by The Text Publishing Company in 2020. Printed and bound in Australia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44278878273619,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitled_design_-_2026-03-27T125109.460.png?v=1774576284","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/universal-love-by-alexander-weinstein","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}