{"product_id":"ultraluminous-9781250192738","title":"Ultraluminous","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker's \u003c\/i\u003e\"Books We Loved in 2017,\" a \u003ci\u003eBOMB \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine\u003ci\u003e \"\u003c\/i\u003eLooking Back on 2017: Literature\" Selection, and one of \u003ci\u003eVulture'\u003c\/i\u003es 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Katherine Faw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe author of the critically-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eYoung God, \u003c\/i\u003elonglisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize--comes \u003ci\u003eUltraluminous\u003c\/i\u003e, a provocative and scintillating novel of one woman's journey through a life of money, sex, and power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGirlfriend. Prostitute. Addict. Terrorist? \u003ci\u003eWho is K?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute called K has just returned to her native New York City, after more than a decade abroad in Dubai with a man she recalls as the Sheikh. She sets up a rotation of clients--all of them in finance, each with different delusions of how he is important to her--and makes time for a former Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan, whom she doesn't charge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer days are strangely orderly: a repetition of dinners, personal grooming, museum exhibitions, sex, Duane Reades (she likes the sushi), cosmology, sex, gallery shows, nightclubs, heroin, sex, and art films. She finds the pattern substantiating, but does she really believe it's sustainable? Or do the barely discernible rifts suggest a pattern within the pattern, a larger scheme she's not showing us, a truth that won't be revealed until we can see everything?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250192738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.48d","brand":"Katherine Faw","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648673673372,"sku":"9781250192738","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bb68efb0-297f-4d0c-9975-5e5c5163f3b6.jpg?v=1603870715","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ultraluminous-9781250192738","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}