{"product_id":"five-star-stranger-9781668050149","title":"Five-Star Stranger","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exciting and \"inventive\" (\u003ci\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/i\u003e) debut novel about a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app--a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or companion of any kind--who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWould you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? The father to your child?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, \u003ci\u003eFive-Star Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app as he navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But, when an eccentric patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A sharp page-turner about our culture's commodification of everything\u003ci\u003e\" \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003e Five-Star Stranger \u003c\/i\u003eis a strikingly vivid novel about isolation in a hyperconnected world, and \"what it means to love and be loved\" (Rachel Khong, author of \u003ci\u003eReal Americans\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kat Tang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668050149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2024 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2024 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKat Tang is a graduate of Columbia's MFA program where she taught as an Undergraduate Writing Fellow. Born in China, relocated to Japan, and raised in California, she is fascinated by how we make and fake human connection in a technologically evolving world. Her short stories and graphic narratives have appeared in \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Margins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Pigeon Pages\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She currently lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44475486666867,"sku":"9781668050149","price":30.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_41c88243-59b2-4d41-ba3b-c8f5eeabf0ed.jpg?v=1774357504","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/five-star-stranger-9781668050149","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}