{"product_id":"jerks-paperback","title":"Jerks - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara Lippmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eJerks\u003c\/i\u003e, Sara Lippmann rides the proverbial clutch between wanting and having.\u003c\/b\u003e Ambivalent mothers, aging suburbanites, restless teens, survivalist parents, and disaffected wives-desire is a live wire, however frayed; a reminder that life, for all its sputtering stall outs, is still worth living. The messy characters in these eighteen stories may hack up their bedsheets with group sex, anonymous sex, infidelity, and a literal handsaw, but there's tenderness, too, among the lust and rage. With crisp precision, ample honesty and desperate humor, Lippmann delivers an irresistibly fraught cast of characters at various stages of undress. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSARA LIPPMANN is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eLech\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collections \u003ci\u003eDoll Palace\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJerks\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e Her fiction has won the Lilith Fiction Prize and has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. With Seth Rogoff, she co-edited the anthology \u003ci\u003eSmashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible\u003c\/i\u003e from SUNY Press. She is a co-founder of Writing Co-lab, an artist-run online teaching cooperative, and the editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eEpiphany\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. Her new novel, \u003ci\u003eHidden River\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published by Tortoise Books in 2026. She lives in Brooklyn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47268000366841,"sku":"9781965199237","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/S6iOvB29Y69781965199237.webp?v=1768873545","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/jerks-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}