{"product_id":"pay-as-you-go-9781963270266","title":"Pay as You Go","description":"\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award. Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. Named a best book of 2023 by NPR.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnwilling to accept this fate, Slide-a barber with an opaque past-embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods. As he bounces from foldout couch to disaster-relief tent, falling in with some tough types, Slide begins to realize that he's going to have to scratch and claw just to claim a place for himself in this world-let alone a place with in-unit laundry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exuberant, fantastical odyssey, \u003ci\u003ePay As You Go\u003c\/i\u003e wonders if what we're searching for is ever really out there. Its pages-surreal, biting, and teeming with life-announce the startling talents of Eskor David Johnson, who knows that all any of us really want is a place to rest our head.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEskor David Johnson\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. His writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney's Quarterly Concern\u003c\/em\u003e. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was the recipient of the Richard Yates Short Story Prize, the Maytag Fellowship and the Teaching-Writing Fellowship, he currently lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186431721746,"sku":"9781963270266","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_032ddbdc-5be7-41e5-b66f-8ee8618fbd31.jpg?v=1770135697","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pay-as-you-go-9781963270266","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}