{"product_id":"brother-bront-9781250419927-new","title":"Brother Bront","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2026 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest of Fiction 2025.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Town \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlta.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Flores's style has an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb; it's as if he feels he's inventing literature for the first time.\" --Mark Leyner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Flores's fiction possesses the aspect of a dream.\" --David L. Ulin, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This crazy, cakey world-making of Fernando A. Flores is all of literature: wide, plaintive, melancholy, and full of feminist fellow joyousness and ways . . . Hated this world ending. I want more.\" --Eileen Myles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo women fight to save their dystopian border town--and literature--in this gonzo near-future adventure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of its mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick's pockets. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Proserpina and Neftal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PICADOR USA","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67722703012130,"sku":"9781250419927-new","price":21.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781250419927.jpg?v=1793871022","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/brother-bront-9781250419927-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}