{"product_id":"book-czao","title":"Riots I Have Known","description":"\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRyan Chapman’s “gritty, bracing debut” (\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e) set during a prison riot is “dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious…one of the smartest—and best—novels of the year” (NPR).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA largescale riot rages through Westbrook prison in upstate New York, incited by a poem in the house literary journal. Our unnamed narrator, barricaded inside the computer lab, swears he’s blameless—even though, as editor-in-chief, he published the piece in question. As he awaits violent interruption by his many, many enemies, he liveblogs one final Editor’s Letter. \u003ci\u003eRiots I Have Known \u003c\/i\u003eis his memoir, confession, and act of literary revenge.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHis tale spans a childhood in Sri Lanka, navigating the postwar black markets and hotel chains; employment as a Park Avenue doorman, serving the widows of the one percent; life in prison, with the silver lining of his beloved McNairy; and his stewardship of \u003ci\u003eThe Holding Pen\u003c\/i\u003e, a “masterpiece of post-penal literature” favored by Brooklynites everywhere. All will be revealed, and everyone will see he’s really a good guy, doing it for the right reasons.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Fitfully funny and murderously wry,” \u003ci\u003eRiots I Have Known\u003c\/i\u003e is “a frenzied yet wistful monologue from a lover of literature under siege” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347152052528,"sku":"BDczao","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49347152085296,"sku":"10czao","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/czao-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773689710","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-czao","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}