{"product_id":"book-fww2","title":"Toad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Delaine has the perfect deadpan narration that conveys the hopelessness of our protagonist.\"- \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her wayward early twenties, when she was a fish out of water among a group of eccentric, privileged young people at a liberal arts college. There was Sam, an unabashed collector of other people’s stories; Carlotta, a troubled free spirit; and Rennel, a self-obsessed philosophy student. Self-deprecating and sardonic, Sally recounts their misadventures, up to the tragedy that tore them apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColorful, crass, and profound, \u003ci\u003eToad\u003c\/i\u003e is Katherine Dunn’s ode to her time as a student at Reed College in the late 1960s. It is filled with the same mordant observations about the darkest aspects of human nature that made \u003ci\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/i\u003e a cult classic and Dunn a misfit hero. Daring and bizarre, \u003ci\u003eToad\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates her genius for black humor and her ecstatic celebration of the grotesque. Fifty-some years after it was written, \u003ci\u003eToad\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely story about the ravages of womanhood and a powerful addition to the canon of feminist fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49355927126320,"sku":"BDfww2","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/75517-fww2-Square.jpg?v=1734400282","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-fww2","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}