{"product_id":"dear-future-occupants","title":"Dear Future Occupants","description":"It is 1979 and patriarch Bud relocates his family to his conservative hometown of Greenhill, Connecticut. Despite dubious restaurant experience, he uses his wife's inheritance to purchase a diner in hopes of proving himself. Things begin to fall apart when police find an all-too-literal skeleton in the family's basement. A series of misfortunes, accidents, and comedic events follow, including the creation of a vending-machine-sandwich\/drug-dealing business and a protest-turned-siege at the local hospital. Charting one family's rise to subversive glory in a genteel New England town, this colonial gothic novel is told through found documents and multiple perspectives, including those of Bud; Victor, the middle son; and Herman, the ahead-of-their time, nonbinary, eldest child whose journal entries serve as a kind of Greek chorus throughout. In this breathless, exuberant work, Keith Stahl brilliantly captures the foundational dichotomies at the heart of the American experience: a puritanical distrust of anything fun and a nearly anarchic love of pleasure and freedom. Moving and bitterly humorous, Dear Future Occupants is a paean to the working class and the diversity that holds a family together.","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58481037738319,"sku":"9780299359843","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780299359843_1-dear-future-occupants.jpg?v=1786782139","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/dear-future-occupants","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}