{"product_id":"paradise-logic-9781668057032","title":"Paradise Logic","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHere, at last, is someone doing something new.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The style is George Saunders meets Ottessa Moshfegh.\" \u003ci\u003e--The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The funniest book of the year and one of the smartest.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--Gary Shteyngart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hilarious, surreal, and devastating journey into the mind of Reality Kahn, a young woman on a quest to be the greatest girlfriend of all time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was decreed from the moment she was born. Twenty-three-year-old Reality Kahn would embark on a quest so great, so bold. She would become the greatest girlfriend of all time. She would be a zine maker, an aspiring notary, the greatest waterslide commercial actress on the Eastern Seaboard. She would receive messages from the beyond in the form of advice from the esteemed and ancient ladies magazine, \u003ci\u003eGirlfriend Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen she attends a party in Gowanus at a punk venue known as \"Paradise,\" Reality meets Ariel, who will become her boyfriend. She bravely works for his everlasting affection and joins a clinical trial created by Dr. Zweig Altmann to help her become a more perfect girlfriend. She stars in a new commercial. She learns how to become an indelible host. But Reality will also learn that sheer will and determination, and a very open heart, are not always enough to make true love manifest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt turns laugh-out-loud funny, tragic, and jarring, Reality's quest grows ever complicated as the men in her life: Ariel, her waterpark commercial agent Jethro, and Dr. Altmann himself prove treacherous. \u003ci\u003eParadise Logic \u003c\/i\u003eis a thrilling, psychosexual breakdown of our obsession with authentic true love, asking whether that is even possible in a patriarchal world, and announces Sophie Kemp as a wholly original, transformative, and brilliant new voice in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSophie Frances Kemp was born in 1996 in Schenectady, New York. Her fiction and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She received her MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where she now teaches in the writing program. She lives in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186531500306,"sku":"9781668057032","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_206852bd-0c75-4cf3-bbb0-27505df3f4bb.jpg?v=1773738370","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paradise-logic-9781668057032","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}