{"product_id":"sad-grownups","title":"Sad Grownups","description":"Winner of the 2025 PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection\n\nFor those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world.\nA neighborhood of picturesque content-creation houses perched on too-green lawns in a California desert; a meandering stampede of unleashed dogs on the streets of San Francisco; a skein of snow geese alighting in a state park in Missouri; an uncanny fundraising auction at an upscale suburban-DC prep school. Inhabiting these worlds of disconnection and dislocation are the \"sad grownups\" a middle-aged queer couple arguing over whether to have children, a college professor dying from cancer, two recent high school graduates plotting a robbery, a sixty-year-old counselor at a boys' summer camp sheltering herself from the realities of life-all connected more closely to the landscapes around them than to other people, searching fervently for liberation, understanding, and even happiness, wherever and however they might be found.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0996981667\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0996981667.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Stuber, Amy\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43337006874685,"sku":"BVV.0996981667.VG","price":9.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0996981667-0.jpg?v=1783816196","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/sad-grownups","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}