{"product_id":"9781738360901-the-red-light-starts-blinking","title":"The Red Light Starts Blinking","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathon Kane's debut collection of short experimental fiction, equally hard-faced and tender, follows characters searching for a way forward or back or around-some direction, any direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the backdrop of Australia's simultaneously lush and desolate Blue Mountains, a series of men are set adrift. Displaced and in unfamiliar lands, always only passing through, they seek missing spouses, missing children, and missing limbs while searching for a way forward or back or around-some direction, any direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA transient odd-jobber takes a gardener position at a retirement home. A curiously named member of a mysterious network of Sensitives does calisthenics through an interrogation. A recluse contends with their deceased father's missives scrawled in white chalk around a black-painted garage. A man momentarily hosts his estranged grandfather, halfway around the world. The unreliable characters slip in and out of one another's stories, stitching together their self-whittled worldviews in almost undetectable ways. Connections are made and lost amid whispers and glimpses. Alienation and absence abound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLess a collection of short stories and more a set of interlocking teeth, The Red Light Starts Blinking explores the vicious gut-punches and tender-to-the-touch moments of modern life as felt from the fringes. Fragmentary and with significant gaps, the stories play with form and narrative while inviting the reader to a disquieting game of emotional roulette. As one character puts it: disturbed? deranged? delighted? The red light is on-only an attempt at entanglement will tell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diachroneity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43450079674504,"sku":"9781738360901","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/files\/the-red-light-starts-blinking-9781738360901-991118.jpg?v=1743677809","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781738360901-the-red-light-starts-blinking","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}