{"product_id":"day-care-stories-9781953387578","title":"Day Care: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning author Nora Lange comes a ransacking of the house of motherhood and matrimony.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNora Lange's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eUs Fools\u003c\/i\u003e, was praised as the \"Great American Novel\" by Molly Young in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \"a razor-sharp critique of American capitalism\" by Michael Schaub at NPR. Now, she turns her eye toward the daily exercise of getting by. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Heart Beats,\" Carol and David arrive late to a Boston dinner party for a night of \"messy socializing\" with other couples, including a former cult-leader turned financial-advisor and a woman who learned of a \"kinky sort of game\" while riding public transit, details that she will reveal after the peach crumble. In \"Island of Phaetons,\" an expatriate living in Istanbul is called away from her daily life with \"the husband\" and \"the friend who wanted more than friendship\" to visit her mother, who notoriously makes bad decisions, and who has just arrived in Greece \"with news\" for her daughter, a tantalizing invitation that has her daughter immediately on a plane. In \"Dog Star,\" two figurines live out their dreams before succumbing to the truth that they have been assembled inside of a snow globe and will never go anywhere. In the title story, a new mother in Los Angeles navigates a job, a long-distance relationship with her husband, and her visiting mother, while hoping to find relief in daytime app sex. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese stories of lust, estrangement, and self-preservation are at once hilarious and savage. \u003ci\u003eDay Care\u003c\/i\u003e is a biting reflection on economic precarity, love, and peeing your pants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-17920477\"\u003eNora Lange\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Dollar Radio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953387578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953387578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC044000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC076000\"\u003eFeminist\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC060000\"\u003eHumorous | Dark Humor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNora Lange\u003c\/b\u003e's debut novel \u003ci\u003eUs Fools\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, named a best book of 2024 by \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e and NPR, a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice pick. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHazlitt\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her project \"Dailyness\" was longlisted for the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. She has received fellowships from Brown University and is a fellow at USC's Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities. She recently moved to Salt Lake City with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52745857564971,"sku":"9781953387578","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0884\/7966\/2379\/files\/img_4260d53b-053b-4a20-9542-054469df5d80.jpg?v=1773418206","url":"https:\/\/www.txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/day-care-stories-9781953387578","provider":"TX CorrectionsBookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}