{"product_id":"acid-green-velvet-grace-krilanovich-9781953387653","title":"Acid Green Velvet","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe breathtaking and consequential first novel in nearly two decades from the award-winning author of the cult sensation, \u003ci\u003eThe Orange Eats Creeps\u003c\/i\u003e, in which two young vagabonds in 19th century California navigate class struggle, fringe societies, American identity, and the threat of a menacing man. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With lavishly tactile prose, the amazing Krilanovich returns with a sweeping and vibrant novel that is part thriller, part Western, part philosophy, part poem, all of it further showcasing her vast intelligence and capacity to immerse us in a world and time.\" --Aimee Bender, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Butterfly Lampshade\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the late 19th century on the central California coast, two wayward young hoboes -- Paulette and Kenneth -- threaten to kill a menacing man who wronged them: Paulette's father, Rodney Eligon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA handful of years later, the town of Anzar has become the stomping grounds for all manner of cults, eccentrics, earth religions, and communal living. Presiding over the town from the luxe frivolity of their family manor, the Hasleys have ruled Anzar for generations. Their grip on the town is threatened by the rise of the working class, and their union with the itinerant population. Meanwhile, Paulette has taken up residence in the home of Johnny Hasley, a wealthy faux-socialist poseur, hoping to become his wife. Her plans are complicated by boot-prints in the garden signaling the arrival of Kenneth, who carries with him a dark secret that poses a grave threat to both of them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Anzar's cracked mirror, Californian freakiness meets Victorian preoccupations with the domestic, pollution and filth, haunted houses, fringe societies, living death, spiritualism, vampiric women, and class parasites.\u003ci\u003e Acid Green Velvet\u003c\/i\u003e is a surreal powder keg of nihilism, fathers and their failures, manifest destiny, and American identity, penned in rapturous prose by the fiercest writer of her generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Grace Krilanovich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953387659\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953387653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Dollar Radio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Grace Krilanovich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48174829469951,"sku":"9781953387653","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21c4d630-3b45-4b7a-be58-933bcf2351f3.jpg?v=1771330804","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/acid-green-velvet-grace-krilanovich-9781953387653","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}