{"product_id":"a-better-class-of-people-9781950539420","title":"A Better Class of People","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brilliant novel-in-stories from award-winning author Robert Lopez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In an uncanny, distorted version of New York City, a man rides the subway through the chaos of an ordinary commute. He may have a gun in his pocket. He may be looking for someone--a woman named Esperanza. \u003cp\u003e Between stops, we shuttle back and forth through time and see a man who stands in traffic, the same man seizing and shuddering on a sidewalk, an institution where the man is housed with other undesirables (or troublemakers?), a neighborhood where all the residents have forgotten their names. Over everything looms the specter of a nameless menace, a pervasive sense that something--more than just a ride--is coming to an end. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With Robert Lopez's signature innovation, \u003ci\u003eA Better Class of People\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a network of stories interconnected and careening like subway tunnels through the realities of modern America: immigration, gun violence, police brutality, sexual harassment, climate change, and the point of fracture at which we find ourselves, where reality and perception are indistinguishable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLopez, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Robert Lopez is the author of three novels, \u003ci\u003ePart of the World, Kamby Bolongo Mean River\u003c\/i\u003e--named one of 25 important books of the decade by HTML Giant, \u003ci\u003eAll Back Full\u003c\/i\u003e, and two story collections, \u003ci\u003eAsunder\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGood People\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in dozens of publications, including \u003ci\u003eBomb, The Threepenny Review, Vice Magazine, New England Review, The Sun, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNorton Anthology of Sudden Fiction-Latino\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Pratt Institute and Stony Brook University. He was a fellow in fiction for the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2010 and Visiting Writer at Syracuse University for fall, 2018. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382691598610,"sku":"9781950539420","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f101d711-e797-434c-af73-21b53a50979a.jpg?v=1728714193","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-better-class-of-people-9781950539420","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}