{"product_id":"private-citizens","title":"Private Citizens","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúScathing, upsetting and generous all at once, this novel, about millennial friends in pre-2008-crash San Francisco, thrums with Tulathimutte‚Äôs sly intelligence and unerring comic timing. . . . The warm flashes make the satire cut deeper.‚Äù \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, ‚ÄúThe Funniest Novels Since \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Äù \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"One of the really phenomenal novels I've read in the last decade.\" ‚ÄîJonathan Franzen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and friendship in millennial San Francisco. With the social acuity of Adelle Waldman and the murderous wit of Martin Amis, Tony Tulathimutte‚Äôs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a brainy, irreverent debut‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for a new era.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCapturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire. A gleefully rude comedy of manners\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e. Middlemarch \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor Millennials. The novel's four whip-smart narrators‚Äîidealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Linda‚Äîare torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humor and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area‚Äôs maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other‚Äôs lives once again. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50120372420893,"sku":"9780062399106","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780062399106.jpg?v=1751402702","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/private-citizens","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}