{"product_id":"brat-9780593656891","title":"Brat","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eBrat \u003c\/i\u003eis a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won't soon shake.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003e--Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a provocative literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe meet our ill-tempered protagonist--the titular \"brat\"--at a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom. Gabriel is mourning the death of his father as well as a recent breakup and struggling to finish writing his second book. Alone and aimless, he agrees to move back into his parents' house to clear it out for sale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn fragments and figments, Gabriel takes us on a surreal journey into the mysteries of the family home, where he finds unfinished manuscripts written by his parents that seem to mutate every time he picks them up and a bizarre home video that hints at long-buried secrets. Strange people and figures emerge--perhaps directly from the novel's embedded fictions--but despite his compromised state, Gabriel is determined to try to make sense of these hauntings. Part ghost story, part grief story, flirting with the auto-fictional mode while sitting squarely in the tradition of the gothic, \u003ci\u003eBrat\u003c\/i\u003e crackles with dead-pan humor and delightfully taut prose, heralding the next generation of fiction--formally inventive, influenced by the rhythms of the internet, and infused with a particularly Gen Z sense of alienation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13324993\"\u003eGabriel Smith\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593656891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 059365689X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC027040\"\u003eGothic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC060000\"\u003eHumorous | Dark Humor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is an author living in London. A winner of the 2023 PEN\/O. Henry Award, his fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Drift\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Tyrant Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Moth.\u003c\/i\u003e He was mentored by the late Giancarlo DiTrapano of Tyrant Books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48455635763437,"sku":"9780593656891","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_35c09b41-32bb-4cd1-9e5f-dee9a30b8f84.jpg?v=1753532686","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/brat-9780593656891","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}