03390cam a2200313 4500 605944774 TxAuBib 20220924120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802160010 0802160018 B09WBLJL36 Amazon 302f0e72-7ac7-4b9d-8ba0-4b038ad5303c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8877178 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Dee, Jonathan. Sugar Street [Libby eBook]. Grove Atlantic, 2022. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1804kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of seven novels Jonathan Dee delivers a daring, tense, ticking time bomb of a novel about an anonymous white man on the run from his own identity.<br /></b></p> <p><b>"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 <i>The Dinner Party</i></b><br /></p> <p>In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, <i>Sugar Street</i>, 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?</p> <p>In 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.</p> <p>Dee has been compared by the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> to authors such as Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan for his expansive, contemporary, social novels; <i>Sugar Street</i> 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.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-09-24 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=302f0e72-7ac7-4b9d-8ba0-4b038ad5303c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=302f0e72-7ac7-4b9d-8ba0-4b038ad5303c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=302f0e72-7ac7-4b9d-8ba0-4b038ad5303c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)