{"product_id":"yr-dead-9781963270440","title":"Yr Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 IPPY Award for literary fiction. Longlisted for the National Book Award. Named a top debut novel of 2024 by \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, and a \u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e INDIES Book of the Year finalist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in an instant. Unfolding in fragments of memory, Ezra dissolves into the family, religion, desire, losses, pains and joys that made them into the person that's decided on this final act of protest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold in lyric fragments that span both lifetimes and geography, \u003ci\u003eYr Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is a queer, Jewish, diasporic coming of age story that questions how our historical memory shapes our political and emotional present. Visceral, propulsive, and at turns fluorescently beautiful and fluorescently tragic, \u003ci\u003eYr Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is the electric debut novel from award-winning writer \u003cb\u003eSam Sax\u003c\/b\u003e, one of our most dynamic and imaginative writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam Sax is a queer, Jewish writer and educator. They're the author of \u003ci\u003ePIG\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMadness\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBury It\u003c\/i\u003e. Sam has received fellowships from \u003ci\u003eThe NEA, Poetry Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and Yaddo, \u003c\/i\u003e and is currently serving as an ITALIC Lecturer at Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52000313049362,"sku":"9781963270440","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5535e66a-2c12-40fd-86d5-eca6493c6925.jpg?v=1770194809","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/yr-dead-9781963270440","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}