{"product_id":"ex-utero","title":"Ex Utero","description":"\u003ch5\u003eBlankets meets Pet Sematary in the long-awaited comeback from the author of The End of the Fucking World and I Am Not Okay With This, a crossover horror story set in the early ’90s, in which a desperate suburban teen brings his mother back from the dead.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJosh Mort is a 16-year-old nerd living in a small American town in the early 1990s. He lives with his checked-out father and his younger brother, Pete. He has a best friend, Greta, who he secretly loves, and a serial bully, Corey, who won't leave him alone. His pregnant mother, Lindsay, died the year before, officially in a car accident, but her past suggests otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne day, while trying to bury his cat (run over by his drunken father) in the woods behind the local cemetery, Josh discovers a mysterious old book, which turns out to be a book of black magic containing various spells, including one on how to revive the dead...\nEx Utero, dripping in grunge atmosphere, mines familiar thematic territory for fans of Forsman’s previous bestsellers: raw adolescence, young romance, slowly building tension, and those small cracks in reality that make everything more and more unsettling—all sprinkled with a perfectly controlled touch of the fantastic. Forsman is a master of his craft, and he proves it a little more with each new book. Ex Utero is Forsman's most accomplished work to date, a horror story that masks an exploration of personal family trauma and how to reconcile one’s complex relationship with a parent after their death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Forsman","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":51441835835638,"sku":"9798875004179","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0322\/7339\/9944\/files\/9798875004179_800.jpg?v=1786041248","url":"https:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/products\/ex-utero","provider":"Fantagraphics ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}