{"product_id":"crater-girl-9781685101848","title":"Crater Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eCrater Girl\u003c\/em\u003e reads like the season of \u003cem\u003eTrue Detective\u003c\/em\u003e you didn't know you needed. This tense, genre-bending novel is a must-read!\" -Jeffrey Thomas, author of \u003cem\u003ePunktown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreta Tyler has issues. She's broke, divorced, trans, recently defrocked from her Episcopal priesthood, and her underpaid assistant hates her. But hey, things could always be worse, right? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a social worker in a small northern Alabama city, Greta's just trying to do a little good in the world, and also come to terms with a complicated new life, a demanding new career, and the crushing finality that her marriage to her childhood sweetheart is over for good. But when her friend Suhey fails to show for a party, Greta suspects the worst: Suhey's either been deported or kidnapped. Thus begins an increasingly surreal odyssey through the inscrutable byways and backroads of contemporary rural America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTormented by self-doubt, and with a tendency to harm whatever she touches, Greta careens through a sinister underworld she never knew existed-billionaires and busboys, asteroids and assassins, human traffickers and misfit geniuses...and also an infernal plan to radically change the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut first, how to come up with the rent? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrater Girl\u003c\/em\u003e is Polly Schattel's genre-jumping tale of gender politics, self-loathing, clandestine organizations, interstellar geology, thuggee death cults, and the search for personal redemption in the rusted over-sprawl of the meta-modern South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eCrater Girl\u003c\/em\u003e detonates in ways that are strange, visceral, and impossible to shake.\" -Andrew K. Clark, author of \u003cem\u003eWhere Dark Things Rise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e JournalStone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685101848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Polly Schattel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801384743093,"sku":"9781685101848","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/crater-girl-9781685101848","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}