{"product_id":"mona","title":"Mona","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSavage Theories \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDark Constellations\u003c\/i\u003e comes Pola Oloixarac's \u003ci\u003eMona\u003c\/i\u003e, where success as a writer of color proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman at a literary conference in Sweden.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity--a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings--she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen she is nominated for \"the most important literary award in Europe,\" Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, so she trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged--and mostly male--competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, and Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together. All the while, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs her adventures in Scandinavia unfold, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In \u003ci\u003eMona\u003c\/i\u003e, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won't stay past, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39325156311140,"sku":"9780374211899","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/mona","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}