{"product_id":"book-gbxh","title":"Sugar Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive novel, \u003cem\u003eSugar Street\u003c\/em\u003e, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions. He seems to have escaped his former self. But can he?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn a story that moves with swift dark humor and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of his material possessions and human connections, the pillars of his new self-simplicity, kindness, above all invisibility-grow shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his neighbors in their politically divided working-class city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eWith the suspense of a crime thriller and the grace of our best literary fiction, Dee unspools the details of our unlikely hero's former life and his developing new one in a drumbeat roll up to a shocking final act.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eDee has been compared by the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e to authors such as Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan for his expansive, contemporary, social novels; \u003cem\u003eSugar Street\u003c\/em\u003e is a leaner, more personal, but still uncannily timely look at the volatile America of today. It's a risky, engrossing and surprisingly visceral story about a white man trying to escape his own troubling footprint and start his life over.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49289826337072,"sku":"BDgbxh","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49289826369840,"sku":"ZEgbxh","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49289826402608,"sku":"ZMgbxh","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gbxh-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775975694","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gbxh","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}