{"product_id":"in-case-of-emergency-9781952177866","title":"In Case of Emergency","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this prize-winning Iranian novel, a spoiled and foul-mouthed young woman looks to get high while her family and city fall to pieces.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do when the world is falling apart and you're in withdrawal?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisillusioned, wealthy, and addicted to opium, Shadi wakes up one day to apocalyptic earthquakes and a dangerously low stash. Outside, Tehran is crumbling: yuppies flee in bumper-to-bumper traffic as skaters and pretty boys rise up to claim the city as theirs. Cross-dressed to evade hijab laws, Shadi flits between her dysfunctional family and depressed friends--all in search of her next fix.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMahsa Mohebali's groundbreaking novel about Iranian counterculture is a satirical portrait of the disaster that is contemporary life. Weaving together gritty vernacular and cinematic prose, \u003cem\u003eIn Case of Emergency \u003c\/em\u003etakes a darkly humorous, scathing look at the authoritarian state, global capitalism, and the gender binary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMahsa Mohebali \u003c\/strong\u003eis an Iranian fiction writer. She is the author of several novels, as well as short story collections. Her short stories have appeared in English in the \u003cem\u003eGuardian \u003c\/em\u003eas well as the anthologies \u003cem\u003eTehran Noir \u003c\/em\u003e(Akashic Books, 2014, trans. Salar Abdoh) and \u003cem\u003eAlive and Kicking: Short Stories by Contemporary Iranian Women Writers \u003c\/em\u003e(Aftab Publication, 2017, trans. Amir Marashi). In 2013 Mohebali was a resident with the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She lives and works in Tehran.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMariam Rahmani\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e; her translations in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColumbia Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfter Cinema: Fictions from a Collective Memory\u003c\/i\u003e; and her nonfiction in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eRumpus\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and is the recipient of a PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant as well as a US Fulbright Research Award. She is currently working on a debut novel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Feminist Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50724775854354,"sku":"9781952177866","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c393d25-62cc-4465-929f-9749f786c92a.jpg?v=1734808163","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-case-of-emergency-9781952177866","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}