{"product_id":"good-company-a-novel","title":"Good Company A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kate Christensen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by HarperCollins Publishers, 2026-06-16\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the brilliant Kate Christensen, winner of the PEN\/Faulkner award for The Great Man, comes a compelling, searing, funny novel about women, sex, power, and self-reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEver since her father broke her heart when she was nine, Julia Heimdahl has tried to be good company for bad men: a jovial drinking companion, an easygoing, witty non-complainer, one of the boys. Now a literary novelist in late middle age and late mid-career, she is at a moment of crisis, although she doesn't know it yet. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe novel takes place over the course of a weekend-long book festival at Baldwin College, which happens to be Julia's alma mater, where she has come to promote her recently published memoir. She's been placed on a panel with a fellow memoirist named Ellis Blackwell, a man so outrageously flirtatious and fawningly flattering, Julia is almost too disarmed to recognize how dangerous he is. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterweaving excerpts from Julia's memoir with her encounters with important people from her past--the woman she was in love with in college, her old New York mentor, her male editor, her literary nemesis, a former graduate student--Good Company examines what it really means to be \"good company\" as Julia faces her demons and comes to terms with what she really wants from sex, life, and work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176380580009,"sku":"PHBK-9780063464315","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/15847253482210.jpg?v=1781210235","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/good-company-a-novel","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}