{"product_id":"let-me-look-at-you-9781948559492","title":"Let Me Look at You","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael J. Wilson's character-driven debut captures the loneliness of urban millennial life and the peril of becoming enamored with strangers solely through their social media personas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Contessa became a fixture in my mind a year ago when I saw her board the train.\" So begins protagonist Adrian Bellinger's obsession-a chance encounter with a strange woman ignites a pursuit that exposes the numb intimacy of the digital age. Dissecting the culture of online behavior in the not-quite-here-and-now of Brooklyn, New York, \u003cem\u003eLet Me Look at You\u003c\/em\u003e is both a seductive whisper and a frustrated demand suggesting that the thresholds of pathological behavior have shifted as technology changes our daily habits and behaviors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Teju Cole's \u003cem\u003eOpen City\u003c\/em\u003e and Michel Houellebecq's \u003cem\u003eThe Possibility of an Island\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLet Me Look at You\u003c\/em\u003e introduces a promising new voice in the literary landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilson, Michael J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born in Los Angeles, Michael Wilson studied literature and philosophy at Howard University and the New School. Today, he lives in rural California with his wife and three children.","brand":"Kindred Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384347951378,"sku":"9781948559492","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_06da144e-ff4c-480b-b4bd-a76025862d6b.jpg?v=1750171810","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/let-me-look-at-you-9781948559492","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}