{"product_id":"want-not-9780544228085","title":"Want Not","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book, \u003cem\u003eWant Not\u003c\/em\u003e offers funny and occasionally devastating \"portraits of humanity...as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint.\" \u003cem\u003e(Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Wonderful...the work of a fluid, confident and profoundly talented writer.\" --Dave Eggers \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, \u003cem\u003eWant Not \u003c\/em\u003eexposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair--a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJONATHAN MILES's first novel, \u003ci\u003eDear American Airlines\u003c\/i\u003e, was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460372336914,"sku":"9780544228085","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dd781a88-647a-4849-84da-1d21b0f1c5b8.jpg?v=1730039915","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/want-not-9780544228085","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}