{"product_id":"david-eskor-johnson-pay-as-you-go-9781952119743","title":"Pay as You Go","description":"A finalist for the 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award. Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. Named a best book of 2023 by NPR.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNew to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nUnwilling to accept this fate, Slide-a barber with an opaque past-embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods. As he bounces from foldout couch to disaster-relief tent, falling in with some tough types, Slide begins to realize that he's going to have to scratch and claw just to claim a place for himself in this world-let alone a place with in-unit laundry.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAn exuberant, fantastical odyssey, Pay As You Go wonders if what we're searching for is ever really out there. Its pages-surreal, biting, and teeming with life-announce the startling talents of Eskor David Johnson, who knows that all any of us really want is a place to rest our head.","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53428129661270,"sku":"9781952119743-V","price":11.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781952119743_1.jpg?v=1778099639","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/david-eskor-johnson-pay-as-you-go-9781952119743","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}