{"product_id":"vacuum-in-the-dark-a-novel-9781501182143","title":"Vacuum in the Dark: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend Im Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction  a new hilarious  edgy  and brilliant one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.  Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos  New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfrienda junkie named Mr. Disgusting  long storyand her efforts to restart her life since havent exactly gone as planned. For one thing  shes got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark  and he happens to be married to one of Monas clients. He also might be a little unstable.  Dark and his wife arent the only complicated clients on Monas roster  either. Theres also the Hungarian artist couple whowith her addiction to painkillers and his lingering staresreminds Mona of troubling aspects of her childhood  and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place. As she tries to get over the heartache of her affair and the older pains of her youth  Mona winds up on an eccentric  moving journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her beginnings where she attempts to unlock the key to having a sense of home in the future.  The only problems are Dark and her past. Neither is so easy to get rid of.  A constantly surprising  laugh-out-loud funny novel about an utterly unique woman dealing with some of the most universal issues in America today  Vacuum in the Dark is an unforgettable  astonishing read from one of the freshest voices in fiction today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789434609717,"sku":"ByrdShop_1501182145","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781501182143.jpg?v=1784691101","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/vacuum-in-the-dark-a-novel-9781501182143","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}