{"product_id":"brat-a-novel","title":"Brat: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBrat \u003c\/i\u003eis a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family. \u003ci\u003e--\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won't soon shake.\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003e--Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a provocative literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe meet our ill-tempered protagonist--the titular brat--at a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom. Gabriel is mourning the death of his father as well as a recent breakup and struggling to finish writing his second book. Alone and aimless, he agrees to move back into his parents' house to clear it out for sale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn fragments and figments, Gabriel takes us on a surreal journey into the mysteries of the family home, where he finds unfinished manuscripts written by his parents that seem to mutate every time he picks them up and a bizarre home video that hints at long-buried secrets. Strange people and figures emerge--perhaps directly from the novel's embedded fictions--but despite his compromised state, Gabriel is determined to try to make sense of these hauntings. Part ghost story, part grief story, flirting with the auto-fictional mode while sitting squarely in the tradition of the gothic, \u003ci\u003eBrat\u003c\/i\u003e crackles with dead-pan humor and delightfully taut prose, heralding the next generation of fiction--formally inventive, influenced by the rhythms of the internet, and infused with a particularly Gen Z sense of alienation.","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46609487298729,"sku":"PHBK-9780593656891","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/content_f33fffa1-f5f1-4bd9-9f3d-cbd5647cf6e4.jpg?v=1764702639","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/brat-a-novel","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}