{"product_id":"9780299359843","title":"Dear Future Occupants - Keith Stahl","description":"It is 1979 and patriarch Bud relocates his family to his conservative hometown of Greenhill, Connecticut. Despite dubious restaurant experience, he uses his wife's inheritance to purchase a diner in hopes of proving himself. Things begin to fall apart when police find an all-too-literal skeleton in the family's basement. A series of misfortunes, accidents, and comedic events follow, including the creation of a vending-machine-sandwich\/drug-dealing business and a protest-turned-siege at the local hospital. Charting one family's rise to subversive glory in a genteel New England town, this colonial gothic novel is told through found documents and multiple perspectives, including those of Bud; Victor, the middle son; and Herman, the ahead-of-their time, nonbinary, eldest child whose journal entries serve as a kind of Greek chorus throughout. In this breathless, exuberant work, Keith Stahl brilliantly captures the foundational dichotomies at the heart of the American experience: a puritanical distrust of anything fun and a nearly anarchic love of pleasure and freedom. Moving and bitterly humorous, Dear Future Occupants is a paean to the working class and the diversity that holds a family together.","brand":"Keith Stahl","offers":[{"title":"256 pages \/ 15\/09\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57415330201975,"sku":"9780299359843","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780299359843.jpg?v=1787879001","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780299359843","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}