{"product_id":"sugar-street-jonathan-dee-9780802160003","title":"Sugar Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This propulsive and furious book is as fun to read as it is relentless and unsparing. Deranged and faltering America, Jonathan Dee has your number.\" --Joshua Ferris, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, \u003ci\u003eSugar Street\u003c\/i\u003e, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions. He seems to have escaped his former self. But can he?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a story that moves with swift dark humor and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of his material possessions and human connections, the pillars of his new self - simplicity, kindness, above all invisibility - grow shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his neighbors in their politically divided working-class city. With the suspense of a crime thriller and the grace of our best literary fiction, Dee unspools the details of our unlikely hero's former life and his developing new one in a drumbeat roll up to a shocking final act.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDee has been compared by the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e to authors such as Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan for his expansive, contemporary, social novels; \u003ci\u003eSugar Street\u003c\/i\u003e is a leaner, more personal, but still uncannily timely look at the volatile America of today. A risky, engrossing and surprisingly visceral story about a white man trying to escape his own troubling footprint and start his life over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Dee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080216000X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802160003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.70w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2022 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2022 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/16\/2022","brand":"Jonathan Dee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059740733695,"sku":"9780802160003","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b37e7bf-55fc-47b9-8ee0-e1a11ee9cf82.jpg?v=1685060052","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sugar-street-jonathan-dee-9780802160003","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}