{"product_id":"why-trees-hannah-gold-9798217060887","title":"Why Trees: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A brilliant, unexpected writer . . . Hannah Gold is giving the NYC creative class a treatment both brutal and tender in \u003ci\u003eWhy Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, her genre-bending, almost irritatingly funny first collection of short stories . . . [as] if Tony Tulathimutte's \u003ci\u003eRejection \u003c\/i\u003ehad a baby with Mary Gaitskill's \u003ci\u003eBad Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --Lena Dunham \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The gigawattage of Hannah Gold's wit and intelligence could light up Manhattan--and in \u003ci\u003eWhy Trees\u003c\/i\u003e they literally do. Read this book or I'll kill you!\" --Tony Tulathimutte, author of \u003ci\u003eRejection \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccomplished critic Hannah Gold makes her fiction debut in this funny, wise, curious collection of stories exploring the glorious absurdities of life in New York City \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"People suffering extreme emotional states can so easily fly under the radar in this city, don't you find?\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross the nine stories in \u003ci\u003eWhy Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, New Yorkers find themselves spotlit on a beautiful, dysfunctional stage cluttered with artists, grifters, and eccentrics all attempting to secure increasingly scarce footholds for themselves before the curtains come down. A prolific night blogger for a feminist website uses her boyfriend as a writing chair. A reality TV family hailing from Soho meets their superfan. A journalist working for an insolvent local newsroom ventures out to an artists' encampment on Ellis Island for one final scoop. These characters' quests--for love, creative fulfillment, a steady paycheck, a sense of belonging--are only further complicated by the follies of city living: financial and emotional insecurity, vanity, propinquity, and pure chaos. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrecise but playful, wry but emotionally resonant, \u003ci\u003eWhy Trees \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces a charming, perceptive, original voice through these sharp and memorable portraits of characters performing for mercurial audiences, seeking connection, and straining against the boundaries that have been set for them.","brand":"Hogarth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50841384616129,"sku":"9798217060887","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9798217060887.jpg?v=1793120778","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/why-trees-hannah-gold-9798217060887","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}