{"product_id":"the-blondes","title":"The Blondes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA breakout novel for a young writer whose last book was shortlisted for the Trillium Prize alongside Anne Michaels and Margaret Atwood, and whom the Toronto Star called a \"force of nature.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHazel Hayes is a grad student living in New York City. As the novel opens, she learns she is pregnant (from an affair with her married professor) at an apocalyptically bad time: random but deadly attacks on passers-by, all by blonde women, are terrorizing New Yorkers. Soon it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange illness that is transforming blondes--whether CEOs, flight attendants, skateboarders or accountants--into rabid killers. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHazel, vulnerable because of her pregnancy, decides to flee the city--but finds that the epidemic has spread and that the world outside New York is even stranger than she imagined. She sets out on a trip across a paralyzed America to find the one woman--perhaps blonde, perhaps not--who might be able to help her. Emily Schultz's beautifully realized novel is a mix of satire, thriller, and serious literary work. With echoes of Blindnessand The Handmaid's Taleamplified by a biting satiric wit, The Blondesis at once an examination of the complex relationships between women, and a merciless but giddily enjoyable portrait of what happens in a world where beauty is--literally--deadly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily Schultz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45403780382917,"sku":"9780385671057","price":16.77,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780385671057.webp?v=1764192246","url":"https:\/\/www.bloominsallysusedbooks.com\/products\/the-blondes","provider":"Bloomin’ Sally’s Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}