{"product_id":"lange-nora-us-fools","title":"Lange, Nora - Us Fools","description":"NORA LANGE’S debut novel Us Fools was awarded the The Sue Kaufman Prize\nfor First Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction,\nnamed a best book of 2024 by The Boston Globe and NPR, a Los Angeles Times\nbestseller, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick. Her writing has appeared\nin The Believer, BOMB, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. Lange’s ‘Hot Spot’, featured in\nThe New Yorker’s July 2025 summer flash fiction series.\n\nJoanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents’ volatile relationship and\nmounting financial debt, haunted by the cursed history of the women in their family. Largely left to their own devices, the sisters educate\nthemselves on Greek mythology, feminism, and Virginia Woolf, realising they must find unique ways to cope in these antagonistic\nconditions, questioning the American Dream as the rest of the country abandons their community in crisis.\nAs Jo and Bernie’s imaginative solutions for escape come up short against their parents’ realities, the family leaves their farm for Chicago,\nwhere Joanne – free-spirited, reckless, and unable to tame her inner violence – rebels in increasingly desperate ways. After her worst\nbreakdown yet, Jo goes into exile in Deadhorse, Alaska, and it is up to Bernadette to use all she’s learned from her sister to revive a sense\nof hope against the backdrop of a failing world.\nWith her debut novel, Nora Lange has crafted a rambunctious, ambitious, and heart-rending portrait of two idiosyncratic sisters, determined\nto persevere despite the worst that capitalism and their circumstances has to throw at them.","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":51089146085654,"sku":"RMX-64338","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/0f144fe06bffd6505db441aa9ea5c1bc.jpg?v=1773156776","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/lange-nora-us-fools","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}