{"product_id":"9781526665959","title":"Misrecognition","description":"\u003cp\u003eA smart, savage and hilarious debut exploring love, sexuality, purpose â€“ and the delicious absurdities of online lifeâ€˜For fans of Patricia Lockwood and Alexandra Tanner â€¦ A tale of internet longing and obsession that leads to self-discoveryâ€™ OurCultureâ€˜Fresh and bold. I was mesmerisedâ€™ Julia May Jonasâ€˜A brave and blazingly smart debutâ€™ Garth GreenwellElsa is struggling. The relationship that has consumed her twenties is over and now sheâ€™s working as a hostess in the small town where she grew up. Her one outlet is the internet: and sheâ€™s soon racking up hours of screentime in her childhood bedroom, falling down rabbit holes that promise a brighter, tidier, better future. Thereâ€™s one particular object of her obsession: an up-and-coming actor who starts to occupy her every thought. When the actor arrives in Elsaâ€™s hometown, she finds her virtual and actual realities colliding. But as Elsa vies to infiltrate the young manâ€™s circle, she finds a new and very real connection forming with one of his queer friends, forcing her to rethink her own identity and desires. â€˜Casts a spell in coolly detached prose, plunging us into the membrane between the social and the parasocial. I was blown awayâ€™ Antoine Wilsonâ€˜Enthralling, astonishingly assured â€¦ At once familiar and estrangingâ€™ Sarah Blakley-Cartwright\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shelf-Made.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52063431885128,"sku":"9781526665959","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/1260\/5000\/files\/9781526665959_4036c9e5-c88f-4a12-828e-4b4917fa2ae3.jpg?v=1764082374","url":"https:\/\/shelfmadebooks.com\/products\/9781526665959","provider":"Shelf-Made.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}