{"product_id":"happy-bad","title":"Happy Bad","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Nolan is a skillful satirist, and one whose aim is extensive, wickedly funny and true.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew Orleans Times-Picayune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A self-assured debut that is also a warning.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Delaney Nolan has written a brutal, joyful, surprising, and gorgeous novel of human contradictions. It's a stunner.\"--Julia Phillips, author of \u003ci\u003eBear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHernan Diaz meets Ottessa Moshfegh in this madcap road trip chronicle; a moving display of human connection in the face of violence and climate destruction from a remarkable new voice in fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeatrice works at Twin Bridge, a chronically underfunded residential treatment center in near-future East Texas, teeming with enraged teenage girls on either too many or not enough drugs. On a normal day, it's difficult for Beatrice and the other staff--Arda, Carmen, and Linda--to keep their cool in dust-blown Askewn. But when a heat wave triggers a massive, sustained blackout, Beatrice and the other staff and residents must evacuate. Facing police brutality, sweltering heat, panicked evacuees, the girls' mounting withdrawal, and the consequences of her own lies, they search for a route out of the blackout zone. A catastrophe novel by turns tender and hilarious, fueled by a low-simmering political rage, \u003ci\u003eHappy Bad\u003c\/i\u003e is a rocket arrived on Earth.","brand":"Delaney Nolan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47288469815532,"sku":"9781662603280","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781662603280.jpg?v=1770556114","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/happy-bad","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}