{"product_id":"good-company","title":"Good Company","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER ONLY. PLEASE PLACE PREORDERS AS SEPARATE ORDERS FROM ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE FULFILLED IMMEDIATELY. ITEMS ORDERED WITH PREORDER BOOKS WILL BE HELD UNTIL THE PREORDER IS AVAILABLE FOR FULFILLMENT. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAVAILABLE JUNE 16, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy: Kate Christensen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the brilliant Kate Christensen, winner of the PEN\/Faulkner award for \u003cem\u003eThe Great Man,\u003c\/em\u003e comes a compelling, searing, funny novel about women, sex, power, and self-reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEver since her father broke her heart when she was nine, Julia Heimdahl has tried to be good company for bad men: a jovial drinking companion, an easygoing, witty non-complainer, one of the boys. Now a literary novelist in late middle age and late mid-career, she is at a moment of crisis, although she doesn’t know it yet. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003etakes place over the course of a weekend-long book festival at Baldwin College, which happens to be Julia’s alma mater, where she has come to promote her recently published memoir. She’s been placed on a panel with a fellow memoirist named Ellis Blackwell, a man so outrageously flirtatious and fawningly flattering, Julia is almost too disarmed to recognize how dangerous he is. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterweaving excerpts from Julia's memoir with her encounters with important people from her past—the woman she was in love with in college, her old New York mentor, her male editor, her literary nemesis, a former graduate student—\u003cem\u003eGood Company \u003c\/em\u003eexamines what it \u003cem\u003ereally\u003c\/em\u003e means to be “good company\" as Julia faces her demons and comes to terms with what she really wants from sex, life, and work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47847907295383,"sku":null,"price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/0349\/4039\/files\/9780063464315_e655a.jpg?v=1779899398","url":"https:\/\/littledistrictbooks.com\/products\/good-company","provider":"Little District Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}