{"product_id":"dear-future-occupants","title":"Dear Future Occupants","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharting 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, \u003ci\u003e Dear Future Occupants\u003c\/i\u003e is a paean to the working class and the diversity that holds a family together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52911832301879,"sku":"9780299359843","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/imageloader_f66d7ed2-50e1-4dd7-9863-09a0c9007bb8.jpg?v=1787927969","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/dear-future-occupants","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}