{"product_id":"scumbag-summer-jillian-luft-9798320644059","title":"Scumbag Summer","description":"\u003cb\u003eIt's the summer of 2003 and an idealistic yet unambitious Florida college grad moves to Orlando-the most magical and maddening place on Earth. Determined to find transcendence in trash culture, she soon finds herself immersed in a torrid love affair with her married, opioid-addicted boss. From bowling alleys to barrooms, malls to matinees, through the dull refuse of suburbia with new and unforgettable meaning, this book is a love letter to a fleeting season of illicit love, rampant addiction, buried grief and inevitable heartbreak-a whiskey-soaked, deep-fried, classic rock-scored mega-chain ode to Florida, youth, and the swan song of the human heart.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"...sex, shock, and scandal, longing and shame, nostalgia and escape, and the precarious balance of innocence with dark hunger for meaning. [Scumbag Summer] captures the thrill of racing toward danger...\"\u003cb\u003e-SARAH GERARD, author of\u003ci\u003e True Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"...a bible for hedonism and heartbreak, where bad choices give us a reason to live.\"\u003cb\u003e-LEXI KENT-MONNING, author of\u003ci\u003e Burden of Joy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"...a love story by way of a dumpster fire [and] the summer's sexiest (and darkest) love letter.\"\u003cb\u003e-KEVIN MALONEY, author of\u003ci\u003e The Red-Headed Pilgrim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"...hits you like a crush you'll never get to touch, possessing the kind of exiled frisson that happens the moment before you kiss someone new...\"\u003cb\u003e-ELLE NASH, author of\u003ci\u003e Deliver Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"...never flinches from the tawdry, and thus blurs the merely pathetic into sublime pathos.\"\u003cb\u003e-JACK SKELLEY, author of\u003ci\u003e The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"...doesn't feel so much written as conjured from a jewel-encrusted skull buried under a burned-down gas station...\"\u003cb\u003e-TROY JAMES WEAVER, author of \u003ci\u003eTemporal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jillian Luft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798320644059\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Jillian Luft","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45898821927167,"sku":"9798320644059","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_25053eab-ce20-4844-a8a2-739279712a64.jpg?v=1721377190","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scumbag-summer-jillian-luft-9798320644059","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}