{"product_id":"9781250621276-american-delirium-a-novel","title":"Gonzalez Betina - American Delirium A Novel - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: \" One dizzying vortex combining colonial history generational delusions and psychedelic drug trips . An eerily familiar vision of American madness and decay.\" The New York Times Book Review From award - winning novelist Betina Gonz lez American Delirium is a dizzying luminous English - language debut about a town overrun by a mysterious hallucinogen and the collision of three unexpected characters lives through the mayhem. First in a small Midwestern city the deer population starts attacking people. So Beryl a feisty senior with a troubled past decides to take matters into her own hands training a squad of fellow retirees to hunt the animals down and reclaim their own vitality. At the same time a group of protesters decides to abandon the system and live in the woods leaving their children and all responsibility behind. Berenice never thought her mother would join the dropouts but she's been gone for several days and the only clue to what might have happened to her is hidden somewhere in her old scrapbook. Vik a taxidermist at the natural history museum and an immigrant from the Caribbean is beginning to see the connections between the dropouts the deer and the discord. But he's not about to act on his suspicions he knows he would somehow be the one to go to jail. Each of these heartfelt and engrossing characters struggles to see their place in a society full of contradictions but they ultimately rescue one another in surprising ways.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: American Delirium A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Gonzalez Betina\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Henry Holt And Co.\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781250621276\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 224 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 3\/1\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Gonzalez Betina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49614780072241,"sku":"IN-G-9781250621276","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781250621276.jpg?v=1724467178","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781250621276-american-delirium-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}