{"product_id":"2940012515681","title":"Dead Birds Hot","description":"March of Time and Skin and Flotsam for Jetsam author Jeff Stewart takes you on a long-awaited journey down a dystopian vortex of short stories in Dead Birds Hot. “January” embeds us into the mirrored collage of an oppressed bartender, whose days and nights are blended nightmares he struggles through as his job and dramatic girlfriend break down the remaining echoes of a future he sees slipping away. “Glory” goes deep into San Francisco’s Chinatown as a young deviant gets more from his sex addiction than he ever imagined, then into the shoes of a framer's assistant in “Get Big,” where the young man’s only highlights are fractured memories of weekend parties and pride in his shared slum rental.  In a rooming house in Portland, Oregon, a loner named Jack reaches his boiling point in “Life for All of This.”   On the other coast, in a Philadelphia apartment of an old high school friend with bent proclivities, a writer on tour encounters the delusions and frustrations of the people close to him as well as an impaired reader with a bizarre obsession in “Wreckedge.”  Take a booze addled look at a man whose existence is liquid resentment mixed with humor and a vomit soaked ferret in “47th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard” while “Retribution” takes a sideways stroll through Manhattan with Sonny, a man at war with illusions he didn't create and cannot escape.  “And Another Thing About Texas” exposes the bare heart of a runaway couple waiting on the clock to strike Angel’s eighteenth birthday in order to end their frightening gauntlet, while “He Couldn’t Die Young” puts a foundry worker named Mickey into focus while he fights the blues of family displacement and the tragedy of routine.\u003cbr\u003eWrap \"Dead Birds Hot\" into your grey matter, and take a drive down these pages of sweat, dirt, and broken teeth.","brand":"Jeff Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184549511408,"sku":"2940012515681","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012515681_p0.jpg?v=1763569745","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012515681","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}