{"product_id":"goddess-complex-9780593489796","title":"Goddess Complex","description":"\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review Editors' Choice \u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e Jezebel\u003c\/i\u003e's May Book Club Pick \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Inventive . . . astute . . . sharp and unexpected . . . Haunting and hilarious, \u003ci\u003eGoddess Complex\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a satire, a Gothic tale, a novel of ideas, a character study. Like any individual life, the book bristles with possibilities.\" --R.O. Kwon, The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eGold Diggers\u003c\/i\u003e, a biting examination of millennial adulthood, the often fraught conversations around fertility and reproduction, and the painful quest to forge an identity \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSanjana Satyananda is trying to recover her life. It's been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to resurrect her busted anthropology dissertation and crashing at her annoyingly perfect sister's while her well-adjusted peers obsess over marriages, mortgages, and motherhood. Sanjana needs to move forward--and finalize her divorce, ASAP. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere's just one problem: Killian is missing. As Sanjana tries to track him down, she's bombarded with unnerving calls from women seeking her advice on pregnancy and fertility. Soon, Sanjana comes face to face with what her life might have been if she'd chosen parenthood. And the road not taken turns out to be wilder, stranger, and more tempting than she imagined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA darkly funny, vertiginous novel about the dilemmas of procreation, pregnancy, and parenting, \u003ci\u003eGoddess Complex \u003c\/i\u003eis a twist-filled psychological thriller and a feminist satire of our age of GirlBosses turned self-care influencers, optimization cults, internet mommy gurus, egg freezing, and much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSanjena Sathian \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the critically acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eGold Diggers\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. It won the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Her short fiction appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoulevard\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. She's written nonfiction for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003eThe Drift\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and NewYorker.com, among other outlets. She's an alumna of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught at Emory University, the University of Iowa, and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. In spring 2025, she will serve as the Ferrol A. Sams Jr. Distinguished Chair of English at Mercer University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52078272774418,"sku":"9780593489796","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c73a624f-fd8c-4afe-b309-3a2ab2eef975.jpg?v=1772539982","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/goddess-complex-9780593489796","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}