{"product_id":"disappear-doppelg-nger-disappear","title":"Disappear Doppelg?nger Disappear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hundred-Year Flood\u003c\/i\u003e comes an incredibly entertaining and profoundly affecting tour de force about a Korean American man's strange and ordinary attempts to exist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Kim is always tired. He keeps passing out. His cat is dead. His wife and daughter have left him. He's estranged from his adoptive family. People bump into him on the street as if he isn't there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is pretty sure he's disappearing. His girlfriend, Yumi, is less convinced. But then she runs into someone who looks exactly like her, and her doppelgänger turns out to have dated someone who looks exactly like Matt. Except the other Matt was superior in every way. He was clever, successful, generous, and beloved--until one day he suddenly and completely vanished without warning. How can Matt Kim protect his existence when a better version of him wasn't able to? Or is his worse life a reason for his survival?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a troubling time in which a presidential candidate is endorsed by the KKK and white men in red hats stalk Harvard Square, \u003ci\u003eDisappear Doppelgänger Disappear\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting and frighteningly funny novel about Asian American stereotypes, the desires that make us human, puns, and what happens to the self when you have to become someone else to be seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalesses, Matthew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMatthew Salesses is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hundred-Year Flood\u003c\/i\u003e, an Amazon bestseller and Best Book of September, an Adoptive Families best book of 2015; a Millions Most Anticipated of 2015; and a best book of the season at BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and Gawker, among others. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eI'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying\u003c\/i\u003e and the nonfiction work \u003ci\u003eDifferent Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e. Adopted from Korea at age two, Matthew was named by BuzzFeed in 2015 as one of \"32 Essential Asian American Writers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little a","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50368814285074,"sku":"9781503943254","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e8229532-66a5-4636-a451-d2fda76c397c.jpg?v=1728515205","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disappear-doppelg-nger-disappear","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}