{"title":"Teo Rivera-Dundas","description":"\u003cp\u003eTeo Rivera-Dundas crafts compelling narratives that blur the lines between ordinary life and the surreal, inviting readers to explore complex characters through richly woven storytelling. The writing often delves into themes of identity and transformation, presented with a quietly provocative style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the realm of \u003cem\u003eGeneral Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, Rivera-Dundas offers a fresh voice that challenges perceptions and unravels emotional depths. Readers can expect immersive tales that linger long after the final page, marked by both thoughtful reflection and an undercurrent of unsettling beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"slow-guillotine-by-teo-rivera-dundas-9781496247315","title":"Slow Guillotine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlow Guillotine\u003c\/i\u003e follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to make and think about art is constantly interrupted by their art-industry-adjacent minimum-wage jobs. Throughout the novel, the three friends' day jobs in a failing independent bookstore, a sterile gallery in downtown Manhattan, and miscellaneous living rooms across the Long Island birthday-party-clown circuit interweave with their attempts to come to terms with their precarity, gender-dysphoric embodiment, and the floating dream of collective liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning one year and told through an obsessive first-person present tense, \u003ci\u003eSlow Guillotine\u003c\/i\u003e brings the bildungsroman structure through the autofictional looking glass, questioning how \"coming of age\" could be feasible in a society of debtors, wage laborers, and renters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397998559468,"sku":"9781496247315","price":60.11,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f49ec2128e07481857e98f4b7073c35a.jpg?v=1773776932"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/teo-rivera-dundas.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}