{"product_id":"book-gm6n","title":"Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs","description":"\u003cb\u003eA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A\u003ci\u003e VANITY FAIR\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Riveting and darkly funny and in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.” – \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThrown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections—a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. \u003ci\u003eBottoms Up and the Devil Laughs\u003c\/i\u003e tells the true story of intelligence specialist Reality Winner, a lone young woman who stuffs a state secret under her skirt and trusts the wrong people to help. After printing five pages of dangerous information she was never supposed to see, Winner finds herself at the mercy of forces more invasive than she could have possibly imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing Winner’s unlikely journey from rural Texas to a federal courtroom, Howley maps a hidden world, drawing in John Walker Lindh, Lady Gaga, Edward Snowden, a rescue dog named Outlaw Babyface Nelson, and a mother who will do whatever it takes to get her daughter out of jail. Howley’s subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera set in the deep state, \u003ci\u003eBottoms Up and the Devil Laughs\u003c\/i\u003e is a free fall into a world where everything is recorded and nothing is sacred, from a singular writer unafraid to ask essential questions about the strangeness of modern life.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49323194777904,"sku":"BDgm6n","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/510620-gm6n-Square.jpg?v=1733504519","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gm6n","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}