Sugar street : a novel / Jonathan Dee.
"In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions. He seems to have escaped his former self. But can he? In a story that moves with swift dark humor and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of his material possessions and human connections, the pillars of his new self--simplicity, kindness, above all invisibility--grow shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his neighbors in their politically divided working-class city. With the suspense of a thriller and the grace of our best literary fiction, Dee unspools the details of our unlikely hero's former life and his developing new one in a drumbeat roll up to a shocking final act. Dee has been compared by the Wall Street Journal to authors such as Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan for his expansive, contemporary, social novels; Sugar Street is a leaner, more personal, but still uncannily timely look at the volatile America of today. A risky, engrossing, and surprisingly visceral story about a white man trying to escape his own troubling footprint and start his life over"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802160003
- ISBN: 080216000X
- Physical Description: 206 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
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Subject: | Escapes > Fiction. Privilege (Social psychology) > Fiction. Identity (Psychology) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Novels. Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Albright Memorial Library | FICTION DEE (Text) | 50686016222825 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Dillsburg Area Public Library | Adults DEE Fiction (Text) | 34001001423498 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | Fiction Dee (Text) | 39427103706610 | Fiction Room: Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Martin Library | Adults DEE Fiction (Text) | 33454005907878 | Reading Room Balcony | Available | - |
Parkland Community Library | F DEE (Text) | 34422007271527 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Pottsville Free Public Library | FIC (Text) | 30003009117506 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem Main Library | f (Text) | 33062009640161 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | DEE (Text) | 31901004659894 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
"In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions. He seems to have escaped his former self. But can he? In a story that moves with swift dark humor and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of his material possessions and human connections, the pillars of his new self--simplicity, kindness, above all invisibility--grow shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his neighbors in their politically divided working-class city. With the suspense of a thriller and the grace of our best literary fiction, Dee unspools the details of our unlikely hero's former life and his developing new one in a drumbeat roll up to a shocking final act. Dee has been compared by the Wall Street Journal to authors such as Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan for his expansive, contemporary, social novels; Sugar Street is a leaner, more personal, but still uncannily timely look at the volatile America of today. A risky, engrossing, and surprisingly visceral story about a white man trying to escape his own troubling footprint and start his life over"--