{"product_id":"9781938603310","title":"Be Gay, Do Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Chaotic, sexy, and binge-worthy as hell, \u003ci\u003eBe Gay, Do Crime\u003c\/i\u003e is an EVENT.”—Ruth Madievsky, author of \u003ci\u003eAll Night Pharmacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA follow-up to their runaway success \u003ci\u003ePeach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women\u003c\/i\u003e, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, \u003ci\u003eBe Gay, Do Crime\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alissa Nutting","offers":[{"title":"Dzanc Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2025-06-13","offer_id":48021580906751,"sku":"9781938603310","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_615d2c5b-c17b-4d09-89cb-140ab70b5282.jpg?v=1767983010","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781938603310","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}