{"product_id":"gee-that-was-fun-7-days-of-mayhem-1983-9798894240008","title":"Gee, That Was Fun: 7 Days of Mayhem, 1983","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWInner, Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award, 2024. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn air conditioner falls from a New York City apartment window onto a woman's head. Two dozen people contract botulism after eating patty melt sandwiches at a shopping mall restaurant in Peoria, Illinois. A Vermont attorney sues to control medical decisions for a disabled New York infant. Ronald Reagan wears a robe and slippers to match the interior design of his White House residence. U.S. senators debate the meaning of the word \"false.\" A body falls from the sky in the Bronx. Senator Jesse Helms plots creative ways to annoy his colleagues while his wife, Dot, polishes her book manuscript titled \u003cem\u003eInteresting Deaf Americans\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reading \u003cem\u003eGee, That Was Fun\u003c\/em\u003e was disorienting in the best way, like reading Renata Adler as scatterplot historical reportage. Fromberg refracts the titular seven days into vignettes that set the absurd and the banal, the outrageous and the humorous, the fictional and the archival, on the same stage as the political theater of the Reagan era. What results is a riotous trip through shopping mall food courts and Senate chambers full of anarchic wit and an astute rejection of easy metanarrative in favor of a much wilder, and perhaps truer, mayhem.\" Gabriela Garcia, author of \u003cem\u003eOf Women and Salt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With uncanny wit and a pointillist painter's eye for detail, \u003cem\u003eGee That Was Fun\u003c\/em\u003e eschews the grand episodes on which historical fiction so often relies, reminding us that the fabric of our lives and the trajectory of our country, for good or ill, are composed of the smaller moments: the daily decisions made and not made, the tiny revelations, the ordinary failures and triumphs. A fascinating and endlessly readable novel in vignettes.\" C. Matthew Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eTwentymile\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You'll read Robert Fromberg's \u003cem\u003eGee, That Was Fun \u003c\/em\u003ewith a continuously mounting delight at what he is pulling off. Are these people and events real or fictional? You soon won't care, because you're in Fromberg's world now, a specific week in 1983, where you'll find the profound amid the quotidian, as long as you know exactly where to look. Just don't have the patty melt.\" Justin Bryant, author of\u003cem\u003e Thunder from a Clear Blue Sky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-658519\"\u003eRobert Fromberg\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trunk of My Car\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798894240008\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-FIC014000\"\u003eHistorical | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trunk of My Car","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48462960787693,"sku":"9798894240008","price":18.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_86fd6625-8fc1-494e-8b3a-9286392dfbd5.jpg?v=1753715339","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/gee-that-was-fun-7-days-of-mayhem-1983-9798894240008","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}