{"product_id":"smoke-city","title":"Smoke City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePowell's Books Best Fiction of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\"Rosson is a talent to be watched.\"\" \u003cstrong\u003e- Jason Heller, NPR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He's compelled to volunteer at the local Children's Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOh, and he's also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Thérage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc's pyre in 1431. He's just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it's ever been . . . but how will he find her?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Marvin heads to Los Angeles to locate the woman who may or may not be Joan, he's picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic painter traveling to his ex-wife's funeral. As they move through a California landscape populated with \"\"smokes\"\" (ghostly apparitions that've inexplicably begun appearing throughout the southwestern US), each seeks absolution in his own way.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSmoke City\u003c\/em\u003e, Keith Rosson continues to blur genre and literary fiction in a way that is in turns surprising, heartfelt, brutal, relentlessly inventive, and entirely his own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meerkat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47952177397974,"sku":"9781946154040","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/1660\/5398\/files\/imageloader_35319286-f072-43d9-887d-7956db0532a1.jpg?v=1773776026","url":"https:\/\/bookclubonmain.com\/products\/smoke-city","provider":"Book Club On Main","version":"1.0","type":"link"}