{"product_id":"urbantasm-the-dying-city-9780989920230","title":"Urbantasm: The Dying City","description":"Urbantasm is a magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author's experiences growing up in and around Flint, Michigan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThirteen-year-old John Bridge's plans include hooking up with an eighth-grade girl and becoming one of the most popular kids at Radcliffe Junior High, but when he steals a pair of strange blue sunglasses from a homeless person, it drops him into the middle of a gang war overwhelming the once-great Rust Belt town of Akawe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn doesn't understand why the sunglasses are such a big deal, but everything, it seems, is on the table. Perhaps he accidentally offended the Chalks, a white supremacist gang trying to expand across the city. Maybe the feud involves his friend Selby, whose father died under mysterious circumstances. It could even have something to do with O-Sugar, a homegrown drug with the seeming ability to distort space. On the night before school began, a group of teenagers took O-Sugar and leapt to their deaths from an abandoned hospital. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn struggles to untangle these mysteries while adjusting to his new school, even as his parents confront looming unemployment and as his city fractures and burns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sam Perkins-Harbin, Connor Coyne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gothic Funk Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780989920230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConnor Coyne is a writer living and working in Flint, Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e His first novel, Hungry Rats has been hailed by Heartland prize-winner Jeffery Renard Allen as \"an emotional and aesthetic tour de force.\"\u003cbr\u003e His second novel, Shattering Glass, has been praised by Gordon Young, author of Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City as \"a hypnotic tale that is at once universal and otherworldly.\"\u003cbr\u003e His essay \"Bathtime\" was included in the Picador anthology Voices from the Rust Belt, and he has authored a short story collection: Atlas.\u003cbr\u003e Connor's work has been published in Vox.com, Belt Magazine, Santa Clara Review, Moria Poetry Zine, East Village Magazine, Flint Broadside, Moomers Journal of Moomers Studies, The Saturnine Detractor, and Qua.\u003cbr\u003e Connor is on the planning committee for the Flint Literary Festival and in 2013 represented Flint's 7th Ward as its artist-in-residence for the National Endowment for the Arts' Our Town grant, documented at Intersect 7.\u003cbr\u003e Connor lives in Flint's College Cultural Neighborhood (aka the East Village), less than a mile from the house where he grew up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gothic Funk Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40731740242035,"sku":"9.78099E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_46604bd5-f7db-4181-88da-bbe451203279.jpg?v=1677593725","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/urbantasm-the-dying-city-9780989920230","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}