{"product_id":"mudlark-mary-helen-specht-9798217092499","title":"Mudlark","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling dystopian novel about the fall of a troubled rockstar, her long-lost solo album, and her daughter's epic search for redemption in the ruins of New York City. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Combines the spellbinding worldbuilding of \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e with a rock-and-roll heart . . . A luscious, awe-inspiring, and gorgeously written novel about love and how it will save us, no matter what the future holds.\"--Amanda Eyre Ward \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJenny Sweet's marriage is ending--and with it her band and maybe even her fragile relationship with her thirteen-year-old daughter, Neko. A reluctant wife and mother, Jenny plans a new journey of self-discovery after one more gig at Burning Man. But when Neko disappears amid the chaos of the festival, Jenny fears that everything that mattered to her has been lost. As she races against the dark, Jenny finds herself thrown into the past, and into the heart of a gathering storm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow twenty-five, Neko is a mudlark: a trained recruit who braves the rival factions and feral survivalists in the ruins of a crumbling, flooded Manhattan for resources that grow scarcer by the day. When she stumbles upon the master of her mother's long-lost solo album and later hears that someone else is searching for it--someone who could be her mother, missing for over a decade--she embarks on a perilous adventure with a ragtag crew that will take her from treetop societies to decadent raves to the underground bunker where she will, finally, confront her mother's fate--and her own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA profound tale of resilience set in a future wracked by calamity and buoyed by hope, \u003ci\u003eMudlark \u003c\/i\u003eis an unforgettable novel that explores how love and art persist as beacons of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Helen Specht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798217092499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Mary Helen Specht","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47612082159871,"sku":"9798217092499","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a56725ab-3f2b-4f02-a706-6fb5fc68de38.jpg?v=1764518060","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mudlark-mary-helen-specht-9798217092499","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}