{"product_id":"smoke-city-9781946154040","title":"Smoke City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePowell's Books Best Fiction of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\"Rosson is a talent to be watched.\"\" \u003cstrong\u003e- Jason Heller, NPR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He's compelled to volunteer at the local Children's Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOh, and he's also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Th rage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc's pyre in 1431. He's just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it's ever been . . . but how will he find her?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Marvin heads to Los Angeles to locate the woman who may or may not be Joan, he's picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic painter traveling to his ex-wife's funeral. As they move through a California landscape populated with \"\"smokes\"\" (ghostly apparitions that've inexplicably begun appearing throughout the southwestern US), each seeks absolution in his own way.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSmoke City\u003c\/em\u003e, Keith Rosson continues to blur genre and literary fiction in a way that is in turns surprising, heartfelt, brutal, relentlessly inventive, and entirely his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Meerkat Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946154040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 9.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Keith Rosson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36672207454364,"sku":"9781946154040","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_82a1c170-473c-40ab-be0e-31f64ce5efc2.jpg?v=1603927202","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/smoke-city-9781946154040","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}