{"product_id":"book-avmj","title":"Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You","description":"IN RE: James Sveck–eighteen-year-old New Yorker, charming, precocious, confused, doesn’t quite fit in (doesn’t really want to), \u003cbr\u003eIf: his future (i.e., college) seems completely meaningless, not to mention terrifying . . .  \u003cbr\u003eThen: he’ll start anew (move to the Midwest?).\u003cbr\u003eIn re: James Sveck–misunderstood by a capricious mother, a self-absorbed father, a mordant older sister,\u003cbr\u003eEt alia: his Teutonic therapist, his D-list celebrity grandmother, his unnervingly attractive art gallery colleague . . . \u003cbr\u003eIf: What one wants is enigmatic . . . \u003cbr\u003eThen: Life can be hell.\u003cbr\u003eBut: as the summer gets hotter, James comes to recognize the wrenching truth of his emotions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames’s archly comic bravado fuels this sharply observed novel of a teen adrift in an adult world, struggling to make sense of the problems of love and of lack. The engaging voice of our idiosyncratic antihero is deftly captured by the adroit prose of Peter Cameron. Often hilarious, deeply compassionate, smart, and lyrical, \u003ci\u003eSomeday This Pain Will Be Useful to You\u003c\/i\u003e is every bit as sui generis as James Sveck himself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSee also: Brown University; Sexual orientation (confusion thereof); Dinner theater; Poodles (standard).","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49339921727792,"sku":"BDavmj","price":19.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/92520-avmj-Square.jpg?v=1734033873","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-avmj","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}