{"product_id":"end-of-the-world-house-9781982169497","title":"End of the World House","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGroundhog Day \u003c\/i\u003emeets Ling Ma's \u003ci\u003eSeverance \u003c\/i\u003ein this \"brilliant\" (\u003ci\u003ePopSugar\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"exhilarating\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e) comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses around them. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, working for a prominent Silicon Valley tech firm. Her job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move from San Francisco to Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Bertie's attempts to make Kate stay fail, she suggests the next best thing: a trip to Paris that will hopefully distract the duo from their upcoming separation. The vacation is also a sort of last hurrah, coming during the ceasefire in a series of escalating world conflicts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne night in Paris, they meet a strange man in a bar who offers them a private tour of the Louvre. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in a day that keeps repeating itself, Bertie and Kate are eventually separated, and Bertie is faced with a mystery that threatens to derail everything. In order to make her way back to Kate, Bertie has to figure out how much control she has over her future--and her past--and how to survive in an apocalypse when the world keeps refusing to end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdrienne Celt is originally from Seattle, but now lives in Tucson, Arizona. She is the author of two previous novels: \u003ci\u003eInvitation to a Bonfire\u003c\/i\u003e, currently being adapted for TV by AMC, and \u003ci\u003eThe Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR. Adrienne is also a cartoonist, and she publishes a weekly webcomic at LoveAmongtheLampreys.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562244444434,"sku":"9781982169497","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_013da29c-948f-4aea-9157-f74694b3f3e3.jpg?v=1731858359","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/end-of-the-world-house-9781982169497","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}