{"title":"Sarah Gerard","description":"SARAH GERARD is the author of the memoir Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable. Her essay collection Sunshine State was a New York Times Critics' and NPR Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. Her novel Binary Star was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction prize, and her novel True Love is \"[A] darkly comic dissection of desire\" (Entertainment Weekly). Her short stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, The Believer, Vice, Electric Literature, and several anthologies. She was a recipient of a 2021 Lambda Literary Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. She's a private investigator in Denver.","products":[{"product_id":"binary-star-paperback","title":"Binary Star - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e First Fiction Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA new paperback edition of the debut novel by award-winning author, Sarah Gerard--an intense, elegiac portrait of two young lovers as they battle personal afflictions and traverse the American countryside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeatures a new introduction by Catherine Lacey. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A bold, beautiful novel about wanting to disappear and almost succeeding. Sarah Gerard writes about love and loneliness in a new and brilliantly visceral way.\" --Jenny Offill \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star, the anorexic burns fuel that isn't replenished; she is held together by her own gravity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith luminous, lyrical prose, \u003ci\u003eBinary Star\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned account of a young woman struggling with anorexia and her long-distance, alcoholic boyfriend. On a road-trip circumnavigating the United States, they stumble into a book on veganarchism, and believe they've found a direction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBinary Star\u003c\/i\u003e is an intense, fast-moving saga of two young lovers and the culture that keeps them sick (or at least inundated with quick-fix solutions); a society that sells diet pills, sleeping pills, magazines that profile celebrities who lose weight or too much weight or put on weight, and books that pimp diet secrets or recipes for success.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101940912351,"sku":"9781953387554","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/nZFpHTmJTO9781953387554.webp?v=1781075925"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/sarah-gerard.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}