{"product_id":"lights-out-in-lincolnwood-a-novel","title":"Lights Out in Lincolnwood: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA mordantly funny, all-too-real novel in the vein of Tom Perotta and Emma Straub about a suburban American family who have to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s Tuesday morning in Lincolnwood, New Jersey, and all four members of the Altman family are busy ignoring each other en route to work and school. Dan, a lawyer turned screenwriter, is preoccupied with satisfying his imperious TV producer boss’s creative demands. Seventeen-year-old daughter Chloe obsesses over her college application essay and the state tennis semifinals. Her vape-addicted little brother, Max, silently plots revenge against a thuggish freshman classmate. And their MBA-educated mom Jen, who gave up a successful business career to raise the kids, is counting the minutes until the others vacate the kitchen and she can pour her first vodka of the day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Then, as the kids begin their school day and Dan rides a commuter train into Manhattan, the world comes to a sudden, inexplicable stop. Lights, phones, laptops, cars, trains…the entire technological infrastructure of 21st-century society quits working. Normal life, as the Altmans and everyone else knew it, is over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Or is it? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Over four transformative, chaotic days, this privileged but clueless American family will struggle to hold it together in the face of water shortages, paramilitary neighbors, and the well-mannered looting of the local Whole Foods as they try to figure out just what the hell is going on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Geoff Rodkey","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":55254517678371,"sku":"9780063065925","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780063065925.jpg?v=1781828451","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/lights-out-in-lincolnwood-a-novel","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}