{"product_id":"edendale-9781951971014","title":"Edendale","description":"\u003cp\u003e***FINALIST 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eEdendale\u003c\/em\u003e is a sly and smart novel that contains multitudes-itʼs strange, funny, dark, violent, frightening, compelling, and mysterious. Jacquelyn Stolos takes many exciting risks on the page, and together these risks accumulate to become a powerful and unique story about young, alienated people trying to find their way in an inhospitable world.\"​-Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eCalifornia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn northeast Los Angeles, wildfires rage and coyotes stalk the neighborhood streets. The wind blows heavy with smoke and, inside a rented bungalow on hilly Lemoyne Street, the air grows heavy with something else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRopey closes his checking account and transfers his net worth to his sock drawer. Megan sharpens pencils and chops produce to obsession. Lyle tightens his grip on his girlfriend Egypt, \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ewhose growing dependence makes her question everything, especially Lyle. And Captain America, the cat of the house, finds his orange coat giving way to a nest of bleeding sores. As the fires burn ever closer, will the four friends wake up to their false paradise? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacquelyn Stolos' eco-horror debut explores the ways rape culture can permeate relationships of all kinds, making us examine our agency in our own lives and the world at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStolos, Jacquelyn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jacquelyn Stolos grew up in Derry, New Hampshire. She studied English and French literature at Georgetown University, where she won the Annabelle Bonner Medal for short fiction. For her masters, Jacquelyn was awarded the Writers in the Public Schools Fellowship to study fiction in New York University's MFA program. She has attended the Community of Writers Novel Workshop, the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and the New York Summer Writers Institute. Her short fiction has appeared in The Atticus Review, Conte Online, The Oddville Press, and Bodega Magazine. Jacquelyn lives in Los Angeles with her husband and cat. Edendale is her first novel.","brand":"Creature Publishing, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50671413494034,"sku":"9781951971014","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4f2798c1-d3a3-47ee-a3b7-f9b090f58e6e.jpg?v=1733800890","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/edendale-9781951971014","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}