{"product_id":"lights-out-in-lincolnwood-9780063065925","title":"Lights Out in Lincolnwood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA mordantly funny, all-too-real novel in the vein of Tom Perotta and Emma Straub about a suburban American family who have to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's Tuesday morning in Lincolnwood, New Jersey, and all four members of the Altman family are busy ignoring each other en route to work and school. Dan, a lawyer turned screenwriter, is preoccupied with satisfying his imperious TV producer boss's creative demands. Seventeen-year-old daughter Chloe obsesses over her college application essay and the state tennis semifinals. Her vape-addicted little brother, Max, silently plots revenge against a thuggish freshman classmate. And their MBA-educated mom Jen, who gave up a successful business career to raise the kids, is counting the minutes until the others vacate the kitchen and she can pour her first vodka of the day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Then, as the kids begin their school day and Dan rides a commuter train into Manhattan, the world comes to a sudden, inexplicable stop. Lights, phones, laptops, cars, trains...the entire technological infrastructure of 21st-century society quits working. Normal life, as the Altmans and everyone else knew it, is over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Or is it? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Over four transformative, chaotic days, this privileged but clueless American family will struggle to hold it together in the face of water shortages, paramilitary neighbors, and the well-mannered looting of the local Whole Foods as they try to figure out just what the hell is going on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRodkey, Geoff:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eGeoff Rodkey is the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling author of ten children's books, including the Tapper Twins and Chronicles of Egg series; \u003cem\u003eWe're Not From Here\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eMarcus Makes a Movie, \u003c\/em\u003ea collaboration with actor Kevin Hart. He's also the Emmy-nominated screenwriter of \u003cem\u003eDaddy Day Care\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRV\u003c\/em\u003e, among other films. Geoff lives in New York City with his family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525601825042,"sku":"9780063065925","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6b6317e2-ac14-48bd-bd6f-96f75f707273.jpg?v=1731228010","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lights-out-in-lincolnwood-9780063065925","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}