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03213aam a22005058i 4500 001 122E7256447311EDBB956A3F21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221005010052 008 220624t20222022nyu e 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022024461 020 $a 080216000X 020 $a 9780802160003 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3554.E355 $b S84 2022 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23/eng/20220624 100 1 $a Dee, Jonathan, $e author. 245 10 $a Sugar street : $b a novel / $c by Jonathan Dee. 250 $a First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 263 $a 2209. 264 1 $a New York : $b Grove Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 206 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions. He seems to have escaped his former self. But can he? In a story that moves with swift dark humor and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of his material possessions and human connections, the pillars of his new self-simplicity, kindness, above all invisibility-grow shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his neighbors in their politically divided working-class city. With the suspense of a thriller and the grace of our best literary fiction, Dee unspools the details of our unlikely hero's former life and his developing new one in a drumbeat roll up to a shocking final act. Dee has been compared by the Wall Street Journal to authors such as Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan for his expansive, contemporary, social novels; Sugar Street is a leaner, more personal, but still uncannily timely look at the volatile America of today. A risky, engrossing, and surprisingly visceral story about a white man trying to escape his own troubling footprint and start his life over"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Escapes $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Privilege (Social psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 14 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240716035644.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710061812.0 952 $l JSPB572 $d 20240323012803.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20231031010502.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030550.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230512010139.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230203015943.0 952 $l DMPC403 $d 20230131010202.0 952 $l SZPC124 $d 20230119011813.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20221105010429.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20221102011214.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20221102010338.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20221025012952.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20221005010316.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=122E7256447311EDBB956A3F21ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search