{"product_id":"9780374602826-dead-in-long-beach-california-a-novel","title":"Blackburn Venita - Dead In Long Beach California A Novel - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times the Los Angeles Times Today Electric Literature Alta the Chicago Review of Books and The Millions. One of NPR's Books We Love. Told by machines from the future Blackburn's idiosyncratic grief novel is as freshly devastating as they come. The New York Times Book Review You can try bracing yourself for the ride this story takes you on but it's best to just surrender. Your wig is going to fall off no matter what you do. Saeed Jones author of How We Fight for Our Lives Coral is the first person to discover the body of her brother Jay in the wake of his suicide. There's no note only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach California and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week Coral the successful yet lonely author of a hit dystopian novel Wildfire becomes increasingly untethered from reality. Blindsided by grief and operating with reck less determination she doubles and triples down on posing as her brother risking not only her sanity but also her relationship with her precocious niece Khadija. As Coral's swirl of lies closes in on her the quirky and mysterious alien world of Wildfire becomes entangled with her own reality in the pro cess pushing long - buried memories traumas and secrets dangerously into the present. A form - shifting and soul - crunching chronicle of grief and crisis Venita Blackburn's debut novel Dead in Long Beach California is a fleet - footed marvel of self - discovery and storytelling that explores the depths of humankind's capacity for harm and healing. With the daring often hilarious imagination that made her an acclaimed short - fiction innovator Blackburn crafts a layered page - turning reckoning with what it means to be alive dead and somewhere in between.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Dead In Long Beach California A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Blackburn Venita\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780374602826\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 240 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Blackburn Venita","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49595152138545,"sku":"IN-G-9780374602826","price":21.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780374602826.jpg?v=1754879066","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780374602826-dead-in-long-beach-california-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}