{"product_id":"pink-mountain-on-locust-island-9781566895941","title":"Pink Mountain on Locust Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eFifteen-year-old Monk drifts through a monotonous existence in a grimy Chinatown apartment with her \"grumpy brown couch\" of a dad, until she meets high school senior Santa Coy (santacoyshotsauce@gmail.com). For a moment, it looks like he might be her boyfriend. But when Monk's dad becomes obsessed with Santa Coy's artwork, Monk finds herself shunted to the sidelines as her father and the object of her affections begin to hatch a scheme of their own. To keep up, Monk must navigate a combustible cocktail of odd assignments, peculiar places, and murky underworld connections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Jamie Marina Lau's debut novel, shortlisted for Australia's prestigious Stella Prize when she was nineteen years old, hazily surreal vignettes conjure a multifaceted world of philosophical angst and lackadaisical violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie Marina Lau is a twenty-three-year-old multidisciplinary writer and artist. Her debut novel \u003cem\u003ePink Mountain on Locust Island\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2018 Melbourne Prize Readings Residency Award; was shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize, the 2019 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, the 2018 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, and the Australia Literature Society Gold Medal. Her writing can also be found in various publications. She is currently in the process of writing her second novel, \u003cem\u003eGunk Baby\u003c\/em\u003e, working on various projects, and producing music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893689323794,"sku":"9781566895941","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7222a70b-e9ff-4959-8408-5a6c233300ad.jpg?v=1738233520","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pink-mountain-on-locust-island-9781566895941","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}