{"product_id":"preparation-for-the-next-life","title":"Preparation For The Next Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade.”\u003cbr\u003e-The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As bold and urgent a love story as you’ll read this year.”\u003cbr\u003e-The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"awards\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinner of the 2015 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinner of the New York City Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinner of the 2014 Carla Furstenberg Cohen Prize for Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew York Times Best of 2014\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWall Street Journal's Best of 2014\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVanity Fair's Best of 2014\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly's Best of 2014\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuzzFeed's Best of 2014\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSkinner hitchhikes to New York, newly returned from Iraq, hoping to exorcise his demons. Zou Lei, an undocumented immigrant from Central Asia, catches a bus into the city, searching for a way to get by—or at least stay out of jail. Their unlikely love story becomes the heart of one of the most compelling and widely acclaimed novels in years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA clear-eyed illustration of life in New York City's margins, \u003cem\u003ePreparation For the Next Life\u003c\/em\u003e evokes the unsettling realities of the American Dream for U.S. immigrants and unsupported veterans in stark, vivid detail. At once a nightmare and a love letter to New York City (a place one loves partly for its host of nightmares), Lish's prose is disciplined yet always alive and taut with danger, rendered with the voice of a new and natural talent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atticus Lish","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":48100963188841,"sku":"voc1790033050153","price":11.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/8697\/8921\/files\/preparation-for-the-next-life_1.jpg?v=1790033054","url":"https:\/\/utensilholderfit.shop\/products\/preparation-for-the-next-life","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}