{"product_id":"what-belongs-to-you","title":"What Belongs to You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award in Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- A Finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- A Finalist for the James Taite Black Prize for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Finalist the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e- A Finalist for the Green Carnation Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed One of the Best Books of the Year by More Than Fifty Publications, Including: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e(selected by Dwight Garner), \u003ci\u003eGQ, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEsquire, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003e Slate, Vulture\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003ci\u003e, The Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e(London), \u003ci\u003eThe Evening Standard \u003c\/i\u003e(London), \u003ci\u003e The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, T\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Millions, BuzzFeed, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e (Best Debuts of the Year), \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(One of the Ten Best Books of the Year)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Garth Greenwell's \u003ci\u003eWhat Belongs to You\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in early 2016, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand is a short first novel by a young writer; still, it was not easily surpassed by anything that appeared later in the year....It is not just first novelists who will be envious of Greenwell's achievement.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--James Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he's forced to grapple with his own fraught history, the world of his southern childhood where to be queer was to be a pariah. There are unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in, a country whose geography and griefs he discovers as he learns more of Mitko's own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Belongs to You\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism, Garth Greenwell has created an indelible story about the ways in which our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51953164878055,"sku":"9781250117892","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_14ef3d8a-93a6-4990-88fa-a833dee561ae.jpg?v=1775658426","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/what-belongs-to-you","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}