{"product_id":"bitter-texas-honey","title":"Bitter Texas Honey","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Royal Tenenbaums\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eFleabag\u003c\/i\u003e in this hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texan family--and the daughter at its center racing to finish her very important novel before her ex-boyfriend finishes his.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's 2011, and twenty-three-year-old Joan West is not like the rest of her liberal peers in Austin, nor is she quite like her Tea Party Republican, God-loving family. Sure, she listens to conservative talk radio on her way to and from her internship at the Capitol. But she was once an America-hating leftist who kissed girls at parties, refused to shave, and had plenty of emotionless sex with jazz school friends--that is until a drug-induced mania forced her to return to her senses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut above all Joan is a writer, an \u003ci\u003eartist\u003c\/i\u003e, or at least she desperately wants to be. Always in search of inspiration for her novel, she catalogs every detail of her relationships with men--including with her former muse slash current arch nemesis Roberto--and mines her very dysfunctional family for material. But when her beloved, credit card debt-racked cousin Wyatt finds himself in crisis, Joan's worldview is cracked open and everything comes crashing down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFunny, whip-smart, and often tender, \u003ci\u003eBitter Texas Honey\u003c\/i\u003e introduces us to the unforgettable and indefatigable Joan West: ambitious, full of contradictions, utterly herself. As she wades through it all--addiction, politics, loss, and, notably, her father's string of increasingly bizarre girlfriends--we witness her confront what it means to be a person, and an artist, in the world.","brand":"Ashley Whitaker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46331088929004,"sku":"9780593476154","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780593476154.jpg?v=1743511488","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/bitter-texas-honey","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}