{"product_id":"binary-star-9781953387554","title":"Binary Star","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e First Fiction Prize \u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Gerard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Dollar Radio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.49h x 5.36w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953387554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSARAH GERARD \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eCarrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essay collection \u003ci\u003eSunshine State\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBinary Star\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eT Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eBeliever, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCATHERINE LACEY \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of five books: Biography of X, Pew, The Answers, Nobody Is Ever Missing, and a short story collection, Certain American States. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Cullman fellowship, an O. Henry, the Young Lions Fiction Award, the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and an award from Lambda for Lesbian Fiction. Her debut work of nonfiction, The Möbius Book, is forthcoming from FSG. A second short story collection, My Stalkers, will follow. She lives in México with her husband, Daniel Saldaña París.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Sarah Gerard \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48311255269533,"sku":"9781953387554","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_936b53da-bf58-4355-9736-addfa8eee0f6.jpg?v=1779259912","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/binary-star-9781953387554","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}