{"product_id":"9781945572999","title":"Therapy Mammals","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom Pistilini has just discovered he’s an unwitting investor in a macabre tourism company bringing wealthy European sightseers obsessed with America’s murder culture to explore mass shooting sites. It’s a business that will make him wealthy, although he might just despise it enough to ruin his neighbors, and himself, financially.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold from the first-person perspective of unreliable narrator Tom “Pisser” Pistilini, the Patrick Bateman of the private school community, \u003ci\u003eTherapy Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the lengths one father will go to protect his children, his marriage, and his worthiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePisser’s life is a mess. He recently emerged from a pharmaceutical blackout to find himself strangling the captain of the high school lacrosse team against the bathroom wall of Gopa Academy, a premier Manhattan private school. His wife is having an affair with a motivational speaker. His job as Channel Fourteen’s meteorologist is in jeopardy. His nanny died in a freak accident, of which he may have been involved. It is also possible he murdered the lacrosse coach with a four-iron. A group of millennial hackers has discovered the tourism business. He has a chipmunk infestation in his backyard. His wife’s vertical pancake business, Standcake, is on the verge of ruin. His son is a cross-dressing geriatric. Controversial photographs of his daughter are circulating. Various factions of parents are aligned against him, but who can blame them: he stole a prosthetic leg and an equipment bus, causing the lacrosse team to forfeit an important game. He kidnapped a feral cat, hoping it would clear his yard of chipmunks while also behaving as his therapy pet. He named it Clint Eastwood. His cat is pregnant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eTherapy Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e is in an intriguing romp through modern parenthood navigating class privilege, digital media, hacker culture and gun violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rare Bird Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052176523504,"sku":"9781945572999","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781945572999_p0.jpg?v=1763794202","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781945572999","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}