{"product_id":"packages-danny-odea-9781644285916","title":"Packages","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePackages\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about the stories we tell to survive--and the ones that haunt us when survival isn't enough.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the charged intimacy of a Southern college town, Danny O'Dea's debut follows Michael McKnight, a young man orbiting grief, desire, and moral uncertainty as he navigates friendship, sexuality, faith, and the quiet violence of complicity. When a series of mysterious packages begin arriving at an off-campus house, Michael finds himself drawn into a web of secrecy that forces him to confront not only what his peers are capable of, but what he himself is willing to ignore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving fluidly between memory and present action, \u003ci\u003ePackages\u003c\/i\u003e is both a coming-of-age story and a reckoning--about masculinity, queerness, guilt, and the ways institutions and friendships fail the most vulnerable. With prose that is sharp, intimate, and darkly funny, O'Dea captures the intoxicating freedom of youth alongside its moral blind spots, asking how responsibility is formed, deferred, or abandoned altogether. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At once tender and unsettling, \u003ci\u003ePackages\u003c\/i\u003e announces a bold new literary voice and marks the arrival of a writer unafraid to look directly at the cost of looking away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Danny O'Dea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644285916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644285916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rare Bird Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Danny O'Dea","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48743137542399,"sku":"9781644285916","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_959a9451-05df-4d41-8ac9-b846bed655a3.jpg?v=1782449994","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/packages-danny-odea-9781644285916","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}