{"product_id":"9780142004777","title":"Parasites Like Us","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe debut novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Orphan Master's Son\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collection \u003ci\u003eFortune Smiles \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the 2015 National Book Award)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hailed as \"remarkable\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmporium\u003c\/i\u003e earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T.C. Boyle. In his acclaimed first novel, \u003ci\u003eParasites Like Us\u003c\/i\u003e, Johnson takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind's quest for its own past.\u003cp\u003eAnthropologist Hank Hannah has just illegally exhumed an ancient American burial site and winds up in jail. But the law will soon be the least of his worries. For, buried beside the bones, a timeless menace awaits that will set the modern world back twelve thousand years and send Hannah on a quest to save that which is dearest to him. A brilliantly evocative apocalyptic adventure told with Adam Johnson's distinctive dark humor, \u003ci\u003eParasites Like Us\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling tale of mankind on the brink of extinction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43108396728381,"sku":"9780142004777","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780142004777_p0.jpg?v=1776167664","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780142004777","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}