{"product_id":"evenings-and-weekends-a-novel","title":"Evenings and Weekends: A Novel","description":"“This is such a love story to cities \u0026amp; people \u0026amp; heartbreaks, death \u0026amp; loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it \u0026amp; it made me cry.” — Eileen Myles\n\"Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections.\" —The Washington Post\nFor fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a stunning debut that follows a vibrant multi-generational cast of characters through a London heatwave as their simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over a feverish, life-changing weekend.\nSummer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. It’s June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city’s parks, beer gardens, and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive.\nEveryone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant, and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie’s best friend Phil and harboring secret dreams of his own.\nPhil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother, who’s tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him.\nAs Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. Temperatures are soaring and the weekend is about to begin…\nStrikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKenna’s debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a searing look at what it takes to build a life there.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0063319977\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0063319977.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:McKenna, Oisín\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41537803518010,"sku":"DBV.0063319977.VG","price":10.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0063319977-0.jpg?v=1784343496","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/evenings-and-weekends-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}