{"product_id":"9781551528717","title":"Nowadays and Lonelier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vibrant debut story collection about loneliness and love, privilege and poverty, addiction and isolation - the search for connection and meaning in a workaday world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Heather O'Neill's \u003ci\u003eDaydreams of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e, Ottessa Moshfegh's \u003ci\u003eHomesick for Another World\u003c\/i\u003e, and Carmen Maria Machado's \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNowadays and Lonelier\u003c\/i\u003e features a cascade of characters seeking connection in the darkest alleyways and meaning in the mundane. In these pages, a ballet dancer navigates complex family ties that are frayed by addiction; a young girl discovers sex and sexuality in the nineties in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside; a lover sojourns in Egypt and exacts an unexpected revenge; and a barista and a painter weather an apartment fire in Montreal. The collection is concerned with the contrast experienced by working- and middle-class millennials, between access to education and art compared to a relative lack of access to secure jobs and housing - and how these conditions leave many straddling a world where mental health, addictions, and sex work are daily realities as they try to carve out space for themselves in times that are increasingly alienating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNowadays and Lonelier\u003c\/i\u003e, Carmella Gray-Cosgrove's debut story collection, features vivid portraits of unsure yet hopeful people struggling to find a good life in a hard world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carmella Gray-Cosgrove (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Arsenal Pulp Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2021-09-12","offer_id":44150991945983,"sku":"9781551528717","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c1cb0a08-5a7f-480e-b327-c347e035f97f.jpg?v=1700746792","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781551528717","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}