{"product_id":"sugar-street-9780802160003","title":"Sugar Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This propulsive and furious book is as fun to read as it is relentless and unsparing. Deranged and faltering America, Jonathan Dee has your number.\" --Joshua Ferris, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, \u003ci\u003eSugar Street\u003c\/i\u003e, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions. He seems to have escaped his former self. But can he?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a story that moves with swift dark humor and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of his material possessions and human connections, the pillars of his new self - simplicity, kindness, above all invisibility - grow shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his neighbors in their politically divided working-class city. With the suspense of a crime thriller and the grace of our best literary fiction, Dee unspools the details of our unlikely hero's former life and his developing new one in a drumbeat roll up to a shocking final act.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDee has been compared by the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e to authors such as Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan for his expansive, contemporary, social novels; \u003ci\u003eSugar Street\u003c\/i\u003e is a leaner, more personal, but still uncannily timely look at the volatile America of today. A risky, engrossing and surprisingly visceral story about a white man trying to escape his own troubling footprint and start his life over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802160003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Dee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42289552851125,"sku":"9780802160003","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a72bc6a4-c05a-4ac6-afd6-a6784d1cc73c.jpg?v=1658201324","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sugar-street-9780802160003","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}