{"product_id":"hashtag-good-guy-with-a-gun-9781952386022","title":"Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiction. California Interest. Asian \u0026amp; Asian American Studies. Four days before the 2016 Presidential Election, disgraced teacher Scott Bonneville foils a mass shooting at the Pizza Galley Family Fun Center by shooting the would-be perpetrator. He is hailed as a hero, but what the public doesn't know is that Bonneville walked into Pizza Galley with violent intentions of his own, nurtured by urban myths, conspiracy theories, and deep-seated delusions. Meanwhile, his former student Blake Mesman, inspired by \u003cem\u003eCatcher in the Rye\u003c\/em\u003e and a not-so-secret brotherhood of aspiring alpha males, reshapes himself into the man he always felt he should be and embarks on his own journey of destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA black-hearted satire of our new reality, HASHTAG GOOD GUY WITH A GUN tells a story of the real carnage of Trump's America: guns, the toxic radicalization of young men, fake news, the endless anger and resentment we feel towards one another, spirits broken by a world we refuse to acknowledge as of our own making, and how we convince ourselves of horrible absurdities, rather than face something even more disturbing: our own essential truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChon, Jeff:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jeff Chon's stories and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Seneca Review, The Portland Review, Barrelhouse, Juked, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe North American Review, \u003c\/em\u003e among other fine places. He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife and children.","brand":"Sagging Meniscus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50495169200402,"sku":"9781952386022","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_019a1f02-57da-4f85-a59b-937682dd17f5.jpg?v=1730673018","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hashtag-good-guy-with-a-gun-9781952386022","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}