{"product_id":"corn-chips-mather-schneider-9798261723400","title":"Corn Chips","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Anxiety Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorn Chips is a brutal, funny, and unsentimentally raw coming-of-age novel about a scarred kid growing up broke and unwanted in rural Illinois. It's a story about growing up scarred, learning to survive without heroes, and figuring out that nobody's coming to save you-and that might be the only freedom you get. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCorn Chips\u003c\/i\u003e immediately transported me to my own youth of punk shows, guzzling 40s and figuring shit out. Schneider captures the adolescent boy perspective in such a radically genuine and complex way. Your heart breaks for him and, yet, you want to shake and beg him to quit breaking his own. I haven't encountered a young male character quite like this in literary fiction before.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Jillian Luft, author of \u003ci\u003eScumbag Summer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This isn't the mythical '80's of pastels, neon, and MTV-ready pop hits drenched in reverb. This is the world of the lowest of the middle-class, hardcore punk, and the grimy allure of the city over the monotony of the rural. Reading \u003ci\u003eCorn Chips\u003c\/i\u003e is like walking into a cool underground record store and having your heart stomped to a pulp all at the same time. I'm not saying that \u003ci\u003eCorn Chips\u003c\/i\u003e is the great novel of the 1980's, but I sure as hell am not denying it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Troy Schoultz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Biography of Runaway Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mather Schneider\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798261723400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Mather Schneider","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437659009279,"sku":"9798261723400","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c083732-304b-4a2d-906a-73d8256e1e10.jpg?v=1777163222","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/corn-chips-mather-schneider-9798261723400","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}