{"product_id":"toad-by-katherine-dunn","title":"Toad by Katherine Dunn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman, from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her wayward early twenties, when she was a fish out of water among a group of eccentric, privileged young people at a liberal arts college. There was Sam, an unabashed collector of other people's stories; Carlotta, a troubled free spirit; and Rennel, a self-obsessed philosophy student. Self-deprecating and sardonic, Sally recounts their misadventures, up to the tragedy that tore them apart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eColorful, crass, and profound, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eToad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Katherine Dunn's ode to her time as a student at Reed College in the late 1960s. It is filled with the same mordant observations about the darkest aspects of human nature that made \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a cult classic and Dunn a misfit hero. Daring and bizarre, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eToad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e demonstrates her genius for black humor and her ecstatic celebration of the grotesque. Fifty-some years after it was written, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eToad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a timely story about the ravages of womanhood and a powerful addition to the canon of feminist fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56636682240166,"sku":"9781250872296","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/4637\/7638\/files\/9781250872296.avif?v=1781129291","url":"https:\/\/woollybearbooks.com\/products\/toad-by-katherine-dunn","provider":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}