{"product_id":"bright-lights-mediumsized-city-9781941681619","title":"Bright Lights  Medium-Sized City","description":"\u003cp\u003eOrlando  Florida. Summer of 2009. The Magic are steamrolling through the NBA playoffs  but your life is falling apart. For years you were told that Orlando was the city of the future. Every new high-rise condo and sparkling subdivision confirmed this. Now the boom years are over  and your fianc is gone. Your house-flipping partner emptied the bank account  sold off the staging furniture  and skipped town. Youre an abandoned man with an empty McMansion you cant afford  and a dozen properties you cant sell. Whats your next move  big guy? Bookended by a choose-your-own-adventure story and a final exam  Bright Lights  Medium-sized City is a formally inventive city novel in the tradition of The Bonfire of the Vanities. Bright Lights follows Marc Turner  a toxic male and hapless house-flipper caught in Orlandos collapsing housing market. Through text  comic panels  and watercolor illustrations  Nathan Holics third novel shepherds readers from the glitz of downtown block parties to the grit of the Bithlo school bus races  with a spiraling detour in which the spirits of Orlandos past confront Marc and force him to realize the danger of his own ambitions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67929648463925,"sku":"ByrdShop_1941681611","price":248.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781941681619.jpg?v=1794198214","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bright-lights-mediumsized-city-9781941681619","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}