{"product_id":"odds-against-tomorrow-9781250043641","title":"Odds Against Tomorrow","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor works on the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. A brilliant mathematician, he spends his days calculating worst-case scenarios for FutureWorld, a consulting firm that indemnifies corporations against potential disasters. As Mitchell immerses himself in the calculus of catastrophe, he exchanges letters with Elsa Bruner--a college crush with her own apocalyptic secret--and becomes obsessed by a culture's fears. When Mitchell's darkest predictions come true and an actual worst-case scenario engulfs Manhattan, he realizes that he is uniquely prepared to profit. But what will it cost him? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOdds Against Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, hailed by \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e as \"the first great climate-change novel,\" is an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching inquiry into the nature of fear. The future is not what it used to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in New York City, \u003cb\u003eNathaniel Rich\u003c\/b\u003e now lives in New Orleans. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mayor's Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e. His short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e; his essays in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414816493842,"sku":"9781250043641","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a57ba85-0370-4b47-a11b-c4db3d0d2475.jpg?v=1729386364","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/odds-against-tomorrow-9781250043641","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}