{"product_id":"riots-i-have-known-9781501197314","title":"Riots I Have Known","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ryan Chapman's \"gritty, bracing debut\" (Esquire) set during a prison riot is \"dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious...one of the smartest-and best-novels of the year\" (NPR).A largescale riot rages through Westbrook prison in upstate New York, incited by a poem in the house literary journal. Our unnamed narrator, barricaded inside the computer lab, swears he's blameless-even though, as editor-in-chief, he published the piece in question. As he awaits violent interruption by his many, many enemies, he liveblogs one final Editor's Letter. Riots I Have Known is his memoir, confession, and act of literary revenge. His tale spans a childhood in Sri Lanka, navigating the postwar black markets and hotel chains; employment as a Park Avenue doorman, serving the widows of the one percent; life in prison, with the silver lining of his beloved McNairy; and his stewardship of The Holding Pen, a \"masterpiece of post-penal literature\" favored by Brooklynites everywhere. All will be revealed, and everyone will see he's really a good guy, doing it for the right reasons. \"Fitfully funny and murderously wry,\" Riots I Have Known is \"a frenzied yet wistful monologue from a lover of literature under siege\" (Kirkus Reviews).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41577332998350,"sku":"9781501197314","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/products\/9781501197314_1.jpg?v=1665640936","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.live\/products\/riots-i-have-known-9781501197314","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}