{"product_id":"brat-paperback","title":"Brat - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabriel Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53578556080435,"sku":"9780593656891","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/brat-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}