{"product_id":"flat-earth-hardcover","title":"Flat Earth - Hardcover","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\u003eAnika Jade Levy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young woman struggles with the artistic success of her more privileged, beautiful best friend in this ruthless portrait of the New York art scene in which relationships are transactional, men are vampiric, and women have limited time to trade on their youth, beauty, and talent--it's Renata Adler's \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat\u003c\/i\u003e for the Adderall generation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I read this book in a night, breathless and enraptured; wanting to save everyone in it, and wanting to watch them burn forever.\" --Leslie Jamison \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAvery is a grad student in New York working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. She dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In an act of desperation, Avery takes a job at a right-wing dating app. The \"white-paper\" she is tasked to write for the startup eventually merges with her dissertation, resulting in a metafictional text that reveals itself over the course of the novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, her best friend, Frances, an effortlessly chic emerging filmmaker from a wealthy Southern family, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish her first feature documentary. Frances's triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a final tailspin, pushing her to make a series of devastating decisions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this generational portrait, attention spans are at an all-time low and dopamine tolerance is at an all-time high. \u003ci\u003eFlat Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of coming of age in America, a novel about commodification, conspiracy theories, mimetic desire, and the difficulties of female friendship that's as sharp and sardonic as it is heartbreaking.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANIKA JADE LEVY \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer from Colorado. She is a founding editor of Forever Magazine and teaches in the Writing program at Pratt Institute. Her fiction and criticism has appeared in \u003ci\u003eInterview Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFlaunt, Grand\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. \u003ci\u003eFlat Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43153437851711,"sku":"9781646222810","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/gNpIw9fzNK9781646222810.webp?v=1776947429","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/flat-earth-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}