{"product_id":"cannibals-in-love-9780374536633","title":"Cannibals in Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA post-9\/11 novel about the love, self-destruction, absurdity, and ambition that define the millennials\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoulful, gritty, and hilarious, \u003ci\u003eCannibals in Love \u003c\/i\u003eis the debut novel from a bold new voice in fiction, and a manifesto for the generation that came of age at the dawn of the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMike is about to graduate from college and inherit a world much different from the one he was promised. The World Trade Center towers have just fallen, the Beltway Sniper terrorizes the nation's capital, and a polarizing president pushes forward a dubious war. Told in eighteen vignettes, Mike's misadventures begin in Washington, D.C., and span Brooklyn, Portland, and Austin as he takes up arms with the overeducated, underemployed millennials who surround him. Nursing writerly ambitions, he works a series of humiliating jobs--counting lampposts, writing spam e-mails, babysitting a teenage boy--while composing a thousand-page novel about cows as an allegory for the invasion of Iraq. And at the center of the book resides a tumultuous, passionate love story that could arise only between two people with nothing to lose. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike a carefully assembled mixtape, \u003ci\u003eCannibals in Love \u003c\/i\u003eweaves tender moments and summer idylls with violent late nights and the frustrations of a generation. From delirious off-track betting to a fateful walk across Kansas, Mike Roberts takes us into the guts of masculinity and identity in the age of the Internet, and joins an emerging group of young writers who are redefining the contemporary novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fsg Originals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374536633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2016 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mike Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42561873019061,"sku":"9780374536633","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2b26fd23-7910-43ab-90a8-373596b96ec3.jpg?v=1670942205","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cannibals-in-love-9780374536633","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}