{"product_id":"9780988351936","title":"Good Americans","description":"In the tradition of Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, and William Faulkner, this groundbreaking short story collection paints an uncompromising portrait of a contemporary America filled with liars and buffoons, racists and swindlers, hypocritical ideologues and emotional manipulators.\u003cp\u003eAn Italian-American racist receives his comeuppance from a ghetto Hispanic teenager; a blonde runaway from Florida is forced into prostitution on her road from the South to North; a Dominican-American professor is embroiled in academic intrigue; a scarred white war veteran stalks a black stripper; an ambitious Midwestern journalist pursues a mysterious Indian-American lawyer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood Americans is a \"grand assault\" against the fiction of our time, delivering a mind-blowing diversity of voices, subjects and effects. By turns thought-provoking, disturbing, hilarious and deeply moving, Good Americans is the first selection in The Human Tragedy, a panorama of our society that The New Wei will bring out over the coming years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Wei LLC, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49785392955632,"sku":"9780988351936","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780988351936","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}