{"product_id":"freakslaw-9781638932666","title":"Freakslaw","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A carnivalesque tale spun in luscious, crackling prose, \u003ci\u003eFreakslaw\u003c\/i\u003e is the glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunn's \u003ci\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/i\u003e and Angela Carter's \u003ci\u003eNights at the Circus\u003c\/i\u003e. You know those books you want to roll around in, rub on your skin, and clasp to your heart? \u003ci\u003eFreakslaw\u003c\/i\u003e is one.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--Chelsea G. Summers, author of \u003ci\u003eA Certain Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this riotous horror debut, a traveling carnival of troublemakers arrive in a small Scottish town and perform their favorite pastime: revenge.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is the summer of '97 and the repressed Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.\u003cbr\u003eEnter the Freakslaw--a travelling carnival of deviant queers and architects of mayhem. There's Gloria, fortune teller and worm charmer; her daughter Nancy, a contortionist witch; big-hearted tightrope walker, Werewolf Louie; not to mention illusionists and conjoined twins, Cass and Henry, and tattooed human pincushion, Pin Gal. Against Pitlaw's miserably grey landscape, the carnival shines electric and bright, and it doesn't take long for the town's teenagers to be seduced by its neon charms and the possibility of escape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut beneath it all, these newcomers are harboring a darker desire: revenge. Revenge for being cast out, never allowed to settle, punished for purely existing. And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic, unwelcoming locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence that has been bubbling for centuries is about to be unleashed . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatherine Dunn's \u003ci\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/i\u003e meets Angela Carter's \u003ci\u003eNights at the Circus\u003c\/i\u003e in this sizzling debut by a writer as captivating as she is incisive, as wild as she is precise. Read this and try not to run away with the Freakslaw. Go on. We dare you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Flett\u003c\/b\u003e is a Scottish writer who lives in Berlin. Her fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, featured in \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e's Recommended Reading, Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize and performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She's a recipient of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award, the New Orleans Writing Residency and the Berlin Senate Stipend for non-German literature. \u003ci\u003eFreakslaw\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Zando","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186764448018,"sku":"9781638932666","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_16fcf148-5e30-4c4d-82da-b07f43d0e7b3.jpg?v=1744631678","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/freakslaw-9781638932666","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}