{"product_id":"fruit-fly","title":"Fruit Fly","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A seething, hilarious, and wildly shrewd takedown of modern identity culture.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Caro Claire Burke, author of \u003ci\u003eYesteryear\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Impeccable, courageous and true.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Ocean Vuong, author of\u003ci\u003e The Emperor of Gladness\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo gay. Go sad. Go dark. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A washed-up author will stop at nothing to claw her way back to relevancy--even if it means appropriating a young gay man's tragic story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMallory Maddox is buried under seven years of writer's block. With her status as a literary sensation fizzling, she'll do anything she can to resurrect her career. Inspiration needs to strike--and fast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnter Leo. He's a struggling addict sleeping under bridges and trading sex for survival. He's vulnerable. He's enigmatic. He's exactly what Mallory has been looking for. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMallory needs Leo if she wants another bestseller. The world needs Leo's story right now, and Mallory believes she deserves to tell it. Really, it's her story--she's the one who wrote it, after all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut as secrets threaten to unravel more than just her career, Mallory must decide how far she will go to pen the perfect story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA razor-sharp satirical thriller, \u003ci\u003eFruit Fly\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to fans of R. F. Kuang's \u003ci\u003eYellowface\u003c\/i\u003e and Yomi Adegoke's \u003ci\u003eThe List\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Crooked Lane Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50369456537957,"sku":"9798892426374","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_e7e4fa55-098b-4ae0-a61f-7619ff04cf10.jpg?v=1790521469","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/fruit-fly","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}