{"product_id":"bitter-texas-honey-9780593476154","title":"Bitter Texas Honey","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Royal Tenenbaums\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eFleabag\u003c\/i\u003e in this hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texan family--and the daughter at its center racing to finish her very important novel before her ex-boyfriend finishes his.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's 2011, and twenty-three-year-old Joan West is not like the rest of her liberal peers in Austin, nor is she quite like her Tea Party Republican, God-loving family. Sure, she listens to conservative talk radio on her way to and from her internship at the Capitol. But she was once an America-hating leftist who kissed girls at parties, refused to shave, and had plenty of emotionless sex with jazz school friends--that is until a drug-induced mania forced her to return to her senses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut above all Joan is a writer, an \u003ci\u003eartist\u003c\/i\u003e, or at least she desperately wants to be. Always in search of inspiration for her novel, she catalogs every detail of her relationships with men--including with her former muse slash current arch nemesis Roberto--and mines her very dysfunctional family for material. But when her beloved, credit card debt-racked cousin Wyatt finds himself in crisis, Joan's worldview is cracked open and everything comes crashing down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFunny, whip-smart, and often tender, \u003ci\u003eBitter Texas Honey\u003c\/i\u003e introduces us to the unforgettable and indefatigable Joan West: ambitious, full of contradictions, utterly herself. As she wades through it all--addiction, politics, loss, and, notably, her father's string of increasingly bizarre girlfriends--we witness her confront what it means to be a person, and an artist, in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAshley Whitaker\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer from Texas. She received an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTin House \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStoryQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and has received support from the Ragdale Foundation. She lives in Austin with her family.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dutton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51201646264594,"sku":"9780593476154","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31d20f6a-1252-44b1-8078-da0bb8ca4b23.jpg?v=1744918266","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bitter-texas-honey-9780593476154","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}