{"product_id":"9780802194749","title":"Blueprints of the Afterlife","description":"\u003cb\u003eA tour de force novel from the “wickedly talented” (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) and “darkly funny” author of \u003ci\u003eMisconception \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Philip K. Dick Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is the afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called “the Age of Fucked Up Shit.” A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America. Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not really her own. She may be right. Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who’s been dragging his war baggage behind him for nearly a century. Woo-jin Kan is a virtuoso dishwasher with the Restaurant and Hotel Management Olympic medals to prove it. Over them all hovers a mysterious man named Dirk Bickle, who sends all these characters to a full-scale replica of Manhattan under construction in Puget Sound. An ambitious novel that writes large the hopes and anxieties of our time—climate change, social strife, the depersonalization of the digital age—\u003ci\u003eBlueprints of the Afterlife\u003c\/i\u003e will establish Ryan Boudinot as an exceptional novelist of great daring.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Duct-tape yourself to the front of this roller coaster and enjoy the ride.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Challenging, messy and funny fiction for readers looking for something way beyond space operas and swordplay.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The absurdities are cleverly crafted and highly entertaining. Imaginative [and] heartfelt.” —Hannah Calkins, \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Ingenious . . . Frenzied, hilarious, and paranoid . . . A bracing dystopian romp through contemporary dread.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Probably the strangest post-apocalyptic novel in ages.” —io9\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “What an inspired mindfuck of a book!” —\u003ci\u003eCity Paper\u003c\/i\u003e (Baltimore)","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128019435760,"sku":"9780802194749","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802194749_p0.jpg?v=1769906589","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802194749","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}