{"product_id":"liquid-snakes-9781593767822","title":"Liquid Snakes","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat if toxic pollutants traveled up the socioeconomic ladder rather than down it? A Black biochemist provides an answer in this wildly original novel of pollution, poison, and dark pleasure\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Atlanta, Kenny Bomar is a biochemist-turned-coffee-shop-owner in denial about his divorce and grieving his stillborn daughter. Chemicals killed their child, leaching from a type of plant the government is hiding in Black neighborhoods. Kenny's coping mechanisms are likewise chemical and becoming more baroque--from daily injections of lethal snake venom to manufacturing designer drugs. As his grief turns corrosive, it taints every person he touches. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlack epidemiologists Retta and Ebonee are called to the scene when a mysterious black substance is found to have killed a high school girl. Investigating these \"blackouts\" sends the women down separate paths of blame and retribution as two seemingly disparate narratives converge in a cinematic conclusion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiquid Snakes\u003c\/i\u003e is an immersive, white-knuckle ride with the spookiness of speculative fiction and the propulsion of binge-worthy shows like FX's \u003ci\u003eAtlanta \u003c\/i\u003eand HBO's \u003ci\u003eRandom Acts of Flyness\u003c\/i\u003e. Transfiguring a whodunit plot into a labyrinthine reinterpretation of a crime procedural, Stephen Kearse offers an uncanny commentary on an alternative world, poisoned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soft Skull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593767822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Stephen Kearse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44493184762037,"sku":"9781593767822","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6b3ed0dc-e10d-45eb-ab9f-21d213f598d8.jpg?v=1721747390","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/liquid-snakes-9781593767822","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}