{"product_id":"2940016721316","title":"Just Call Me Snickers","description":"Sara Hannon is overeducated and under-ambitious, consumed by doubt and self-loathing, but always funny, and always looking for a way out. Like some bizarre collaboration between Nicholson Baker and J.D. Salinger, Creney manages to perfectly capture the drifting confusion of post-college life, the lack of certainty, the growing sense of desperation. Living in a town full of artists and hippies, Sara finds it impossible to fit in. Her roommates frustrate her. Her job frustrates her. Sometimes it feels like Snickers is the only one who truly understands her.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSara is a real person. Snickers is a real cat. Scott Creney is a real person. Everything in this book is real.  Except for the story. The story is made-up. Some of it is, anyway.  But it’s such a beautiful story, you probably won’t mind. Her aimlessness, her lack of direction, her dissatisfaction, is a button she can’t keep from pushing, an unscratchable itch, an unnamable longing. She’s not hungry for experience, or success, or love. She is merely hungry, that is all. A modern fairy tale, at times vulgar and depressing, but ultimately hopeful, with an eye on the future, a story that adds rather than subtracts.   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eIt is possible this story has as much to do with ventriloquism, or karaoke, as it does with literature.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Apollonia Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101622976752,"sku":"2940016721316","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016721316_p0.jpg?v=1763640199","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016721316","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}