{"product_id":"stranger-beauty-9781648211744","title":"Stranger Beauty","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet in a future that grows more plausible by the day, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStranger Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e asks what traces will remain after a life has ended.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are novels that describe consciousness and novels that enact it. \u003ci\u003eStranger Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is of the latter. With its narrative spun out of three notebooks, an embedded screenplay, and a final monologue delivered by an AI that has legally consumed a dead man's life's work, Matthew Gasda's formally daring prose carries a powerful emotional resonance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe architecture of the novel is not a stunt. Each section burrows, dreamlike, into a single psyche through repetition, contradiction, and the slow surfacing of things that were never meant to be seen. A marriage as alchemy. A brother lost to madness who emerges as the moral center of everything. And an artificial rendering of a man that speaks with more honesty than the living ever managed to accomplish. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn ambitious and original novel, \u003ci\u003eStranger Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is also deeply heartbreaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781648211744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs","brand":"Matthew Gasda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801296367797,"sku":"9781648211744","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/stranger-beauty-9781648211744","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}