{"product_id":"stray-city-9780062666697","title":"Stray City","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Chelsey Johnson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging to a city, a culture, and a family--when none of them can quite contain who you really are\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eT\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ewenty-three-year-old artist Andrea Morales has escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood--and the closet--to create a home and life for herself within the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland, Oregon. But one drunken night, reeling from a bad breakup and a friend's betrayal, she recklessly crosses enemy lines and hooks up with a man. To her utter shock, Andrea soon discovers she's pregnant--and despite the concerns of her astonished circle of gay friends, she decides to have the baby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA decade later, when her precocious daughter, Lucia, starts asking questions about the father she's never known, Andrea is forced to reconcile the past she hoped to leave behind with the life she's worked so hard to build.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thoroughly modern and original antiromantic comedy, \u003cem\u003eStray City\u003c\/em\u003e is an unabashedly entertaining literary debut about the families we're born into and the families we choose, about finding yourself by breaking the rules and making bad decisions for all the right reasons. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45354797138071,"sku":"9780062666697","price":1637.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780062666697.webp?v=1767670082","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/stray-city-9780062666697","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}