{"product_id":"the-mandibles","title":"The Mandibles","description":"\u003cp\u003eShriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of \u003cbr\u003e\nimagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it\u003cbr\u003e\n is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMESThe brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin.It is 2029.The\u003cbr\u003e\n Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when \u003cbr\u003e\ntheir 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America's soaring national debt \u003cbr\u003e\nhas grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. Under siege from an \u003cbr\u003e\nupstart international currency, the dollar is in meltdown. A bloodless \u003cbr\u003e\nworld war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families.Their\u003cbr\u003e\n inheritance turned to ash, each family member must contend with \u003cbr\u003e\ndisappointment, but also - as the effects of the downturn start to hit -\u003cbr\u003e\n the challenge of sheer survival.Recently affluent Avery is petulant\u003cbr\u003e\n that she can't buy olive oil, while her sister Florence is forced to \u003cbr\u003e\nabsorb strays into her increasingly cramped household. As their father \u003cbr\u003e\nCarter fumes at having to care for his demented stepmother now that a \u003cbr\u003e\nnursing home is too expensive, his sister Nollie, an expat author, \u003cbr\u003e\nreturns from abroad at 73 to a country that's unrecognizable.Perhaps\u003cbr\u003e\n only Florence's oddball teenage son Willing, an economics autodidact, \u003cbr\u003e\ncan save this formerly august American family from the streets.This\u003cbr\u003e\n is not science fiction. This is a frightening, fascinating, scabrously \u003cbr\u003e\nfunny glimpse into the decline that may await the United States all too \u003cbr\u003e\nsoon, from the pen of perhaps the most consistently perceptive and \u003cbr\u003e\ntopical author of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lionel Shriver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44217500336188,"sku":"9780007560776","price":1346.25,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/the-mandibles-9780007560776.jpg?v=1776763419","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-mandibles","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}