{"product_id":"9781468311884","title":"Discount: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eImmigration, suburban poverty, and big-box retail converge in this audacious debut novel of a nation coming apart at the seams\u003c\/p\u003e Set in the American Southwest, forty miles north of Juárez, Casey Gray’s ambitious, tragicomic, and ultimately redemptive novel follows a group of customers and employees through the twenty-four hour work cycle as they seek comfort and sustenance inside of the cinderblock walls of a classic American institution—The Superstore.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On the eve of the company president’s visit to the store, a manager’s drunk text to a coworker leads to a series of consequences as brutal as they are wide-ranging: Everyone around him will be affected. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With a cast of characters featuring Ernesto, a local gang member struggling to choose a job pushing carts over a desultory life as a drug dealer; Wilma, a grandmother working double shifts to support her family; and Keith, a high school student with a penchant for filmmaking, Gray offers a startlingly humane, utterly contemporary portrait of life on the suburban fringe. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A vision of an America barely getting by and assaulted by crime, corruption, and exploitation in all of its manifestations, \u003cem\u003eDiscount\u003c\/em\u003e is nevertheless a triumphant and big-hearted novel that marks the arrival of a new voice we won’t soon forget.","brand":"ABRAMS, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130031423728,"sku":"9781468311884","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781468311884_p0.jpg?v=1769892608","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781468311884","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}