{"product_id":"9780988266254","title":"Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, and Other Unlearnable Subjects","description":"\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Nonfiction. In 2013, Daniel Nester's estranged father died penniless and alone in a small apartment in Tucson. The news brings back a flood of memories about Mike Nester, an enigmatic truck driver with a genius IQ, who influences Daniel's worldview with conspiracy theories, philosophy books, and something called \"The Nester Curse.\" Told in short chapters, SHADER: 99 NOTES ON CAR WASHES, MAKING OUT IN CHURCH, GRIEF, AND OTHER UNLEARNABLE SUBJECTS is a semi-comic coming-of-age story of a music- obsessed Catholic boy who searches for a new identity outside of Maple Shade, N.J., a blue-collar town straight out of a Bruce Springsteen song and where Martin Luther King, Jr. was once thrown out of a bar at gunpoint. The town's rough-and- tumble inhabitants, called Shaders, don't suffer record nerds like Daniel gladly, and eventually punk rock and poetry saves his life. A story of redemption and working through grief, SHADER tells the story of what it means to leave a place that never leaves you.\u003cp\u003e\"Nester takes us on the ride of his life, and we uncover pieces of ourselves along the way...an engaging read.\"—Billy Squier, multi- platinum selling singer\/songwriter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My God! What would we do without Daniel Nester's irreverence, obsessions and bizarre and wonderful charm. The book you hold in your hands is fantastic.\"—Darcey Steinke, author of \u003cem\u003eSister Golden Hair\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEaster Everywhere\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"SHADER is that rare book that manages to be hilarious, poetic, insightful, and compulsively readable all at the same time. Daniel Nester has the gifts to turn a time, a town, into both a dream and a place that feels like home, with some of the most potent characters I can think of in recent literature. I couldn't put it down.\"—Paul Lisicky, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Narrow Door\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFamous Builder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"99: The Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017749774576,"sku":"9780988266254","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780988266254_p0.jpg?v=1763893155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780988266254","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}