{"product_id":"9780385538084","title":"Love Me Back","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom \"5 Under 35\" honoree and Rona Jaffe Award-winner comes an urgent, intensely visceral debut novel about a young waitress whose downward spiral is narrated in electric prose\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarie, a young single mother, lands a job at an upscale Dallas steakhouse. She is preternaturally attuned to the appetites of her patrons, but quickly learns to hide her private struggle behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. In a world of long hours and late nights, where everything runs on a currency of favors, cash and cachet, Marie gives in to brutally self-destructive impulses. She loses herself in a tangle of bodies and the kind of coke that 'napalms your emotional synapses.' But obliteration—not pleasure—is her goal. Pulsing with fierce, almost feral energy, \u003ci\u003eLove Me Back\u003c\/i\u003e is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood. In the words of Ben Fountain, author of \u003ci\u003eBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Tierce roams like an avenging angel across the landscape of twenty-first century American decadence, and the truths she writes achieve a state of near-sacred subversion.\"","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102443815152,"sku":"9780385538084","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385538084_p0.jpg?v=1763694812","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385538084","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}