{"product_id":"bobbie-metolius-rox-9781662971716","title":"Bobbie","description":"\u003cp\u003eBobbie is not a hero. He is not a villain. He is a case study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter fleeing the former Yugoslavia under dangerous circumstances, Bobbie drifts across the world-running drugs, reading people, loving women, and surviving on charm. Along the way, he learns how systems really work: who benefits, who looks away, and how kindness and corruption often share a face. When he lands in Bend, Oregon, he brings that education with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a modest operation involving converted vans, ski culture, and fringe medical entrepreneurship metastasizes into a multistate network of clinics, businesses, political alliances, and ideological contradictions. Everyone is making money. No one is getting better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopulated by white lesbians laundering money through alternative medicine, Mormon leaders weaponizing optimism, Albanian suppliers with better logistics than ethics, and communities convinced they are saving someone else, the novel skewers modern American virtue. Through Bobbie's unreliable narration, it dismantles wellness culture, vanlife capitalism, performative progressivism, faith-based entrepreneurship, and systems that insist they are benevolent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the empire grows, so does the rot. Clinics collapse into addiction camps. Expansion plans resemble crusades. Personal relationships fracture under ambition, denial, and untreated trauma. Bobbie deteriorates-physically, psychologically, spiritually-while insisting everything is under control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not satire for comfort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It does not ask you to like Bobbie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It asks whether you recognize him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Metolius Rox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1662971710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781662971716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gatekeeper Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.93d","brand":"Metolius Rox","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801366573311,"sku":"9781662971716","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bobbie-metolius-rox-9781662971716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}