{"product_id":"brat-gabriel-smith-paperback","title":"Brat -- Gabriel Smith, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003eBrat \u003c\/i\u003eis a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won't soon shake.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003e--Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003c\/i\u003e\n\nFrom a provocative literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe meet our ill-tempered protagonist--the titular \"brat\"--at a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom. Gabriel is mourning the death of his father as well as a recent breakup and struggling to finish writing his second book. Alone and aimless, he agrees to move back into his parents' house to clear it out for sale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn fragments and figments, Gabriel takes us on a surreal journey into the mysteries of the family home, where he finds unfinished manuscripts written by his parents that seem to mutate every time he picks them up and a bizarre home video that hints at long-buried secrets. Strange people and figures emerge--perhaps directly from the novel's embedded fictions--but despite his compromised state, Gabriel is determined to try to make sense of these hauntings. Part ghost story, part grief story, flirting with the auto-fictional mode while sitting squarely in the tradition of the gothic, \u003ci\u003eBrat\u003c\/i\u003e crackles with dead-pan humor and delightfully taut prose, heralding the next generation of fiction--formally inventive, influenced by the rhythms of the internet, and infused with a particularly Gen Z sense of alienation.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gabriel Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6\/3\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.9\" H x 5.3\" L x 0.8\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780593656891\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742003855659,"sku":"9780593656891","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780593656891_37117270-5d13-4c34-8a61-eba90449821e.jpg?v=1769586351","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/brat-gabriel-smith-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}