{"product_id":"the-occidental-book-of-the-dead-t-geronimo-johnson-9780349149196","title":"The Occidental Book of the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIME, Most Anticipated Books of 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e meets Colson Whitehead in this audacious, darkly funny and dazzlingly literary crime masterpiece\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Endlessly entertaining\" — Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Spellbinding and profanely funny\" — Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Johnson asks big questions about identity, corruption and American ideals\" — TIME, Most Anticipated Books of 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Washington Jonson has been in the Atlanta police force for a decade, patrolling the streets he grew up on and managing to build relationships within the force — especially with Tucker, the veteran police officer and self-described 'redneck' who taught Jonson the ropes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow it's 2005 and Jonson himself is tasked with training hot-headed rookie recruits. One night out on patrol with his trainee, Utner, a split-second confrontation with a white teenager takes a violent turn and Utner shoots the teenager dead. As the resulting furor mounts to a fever pitch, it threatens to expose the complex nest of lies that seethes beneath the entire city, and order must be restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo far, so Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut then a dizzying somersault in the novel's structure upends the narrative and begins an even darker, more complicated and provocative story about racism, power and corruption — building to an unforgettable portrait of a nation divided.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Occidental Book of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In T. Geronimo Johnson's Atlanta, racial tensions percolate and the system rarely bends to demands for justice. The author explores the moral calculus of a Black cop who's implicated in the killing of a white teenager. In a narrative that unfolds over two decades, Johnson asks big questions about identity, corruption, and American ideals\" — TIME, Most Anticipated Books of 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Johnson's take on history, his political commentary, and humor read like jazz, as, with this book in particular, he plays with the novel as a form, bending notes, making new music\" — Attica Locke, New York Times bestselling author of Bluebird, Bluebird\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wildly unpredictable ... emotionally charged ... often surprising\" — Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Johnson's hefty, free-wheeling, sharp-witted, disquieting third novel has a complexity that belies its straightforward premise ... a swing-for-the-fences novel, both a gripping procedural and high literary study of American bigotry\" — Kirkus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nothing is what it seems in this spellbinding and profanely funny novel about race, police violence, and distorted narratives ... the author thrillingly plays on expectations of a sympathetic main character and a story of vindication by keeping the reader guessing at the truth and the nature of his protagonist\" — Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67594446176544,"sku":"9780349149196","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780349149196_3103079.jpg?v=1790664852","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-occidental-book-of-the-dead-t-geronimo-johnson-9780349149196","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}