{"product_id":"want-not","title":"Want Not","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book, \u003cem\u003eWant Not\u003c\/em\u003e offers funny and occasionally devastating \"portraits of humanity...as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint.\" \u003cem\u003e(Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Wonderful...the work of a fluid, confident and profoundly talented writer.\" --Dave Eggers \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, \u003cem\u003eWant Not \u003c\/em\u003eexposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair--a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833299972301,"sku":"9780544228085","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_7d7db086-5e91-49b1-b110-6cc5776a2ecd.jpg?v=1790816185","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/want-not","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}