{"product_id":"9781615199990","title":"This Won’t Help","description":"\u003cb\u003ePart catharsis, part diagnosis, this divinely wry collection from \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney’s\u003c\/i\u003e satirist Eli Grober will strike a chord with readers who are dismayed by the chaos of our times. None of it will help—but a few good laughs won’t hurt. Probably.​\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There’s a lot going on, all the time. It may feel overwhelming. Don’t worry. It will end. \u003ci\u003eThis Won’t Help\u003c\/i\u003e is here for you in the meantime—with 100 short, sharp, satirical essays that skewer a world raging with inaction, while maximizing the profits of self-destruction. As if that would help!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eli Grober’s biting, Swiftian prose spares no one—not the megalomaniacal billionaire fleeing Earth for a better life on unlivable Mars, not an extremely online family living completely off-grid, not even a fossil-fuel lobbyist insisting we all stop using straws. (Eli does spare a kind thought for the supremely intelligent readers with the good sense to buy this book.) Maybe, just maybe, descending through the inferno of our environmental, economic, and political landscape will help us find real solutions to the hypocrisy and dysfunction that surrounds us. But probably not.","brand":"Eli Grober","offers":[{"title":"The Experiment |  Hardback  |  2023-10-24","offer_id":44229830017279,"sku":"9781615199990","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_9af90931-afd1-4b55-8a50-229692d79e1b.jpg?v=1700681635","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781615199990","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}