{"product_id":"the-chicago-east-india-company-christopher-lyke-9781990644221","title":"The Chicago East India Company","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePUSHCART-NOMINATED FICTION ABOUT POST-9\/11 AMERICA FROM AN AMERICAN VETERAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile America carried on with Pax Americana, a generation of men were asked to watch children suffer without as much as a flinch, then return home and continue as America has for decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the men returned, they brought with them unexpected cargo that is shaping the future of America in unintended ways. In \u003cem\u003eThe Chicago East India Company, \u003c\/em\u003e a series of short stories and vignettes walk the reader through the consequences of two decades of war, and the attitudes it creates. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn eighteen-year-old realizes his mortality and is punished for it by his peers;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA soldier returns from the wars only to realize he's teaching the colonized in his own city;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA young couple go to Central America and see the effects of the West on class and opportunity;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMembers of a platoon hunt to find a traitorous Afghan spy;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA man spends his days adhering to a strict and ridiculous routine to ward off the bad magic that is always around the corner.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyke's setting shifts in time and place but forever casts the main character of \u003cem\u003eThe Chicago East India Company\u003c\/em\u003e as someone trying to maintain his sanity, his humanity, and his kindness as the state and its bureaucratic inefficiencies unknowingly try to take them away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Camus, Orwell or Steinbeck, Lyke's work illuminates human nature and seeks the truth hidden under layers of grit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Lyke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1990644228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781990644221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Double Dagger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Christopher Lyke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47001868665087,"sku":"9781990644221","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bdb570dd-d1d1-472c-82e3-c671a8d55628.jpg?v=1751602379","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-chicago-east-india-company-christopher-lyke-9781990644221","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}