{"product_id":"moist-paperback-1","title":"Moist - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Haskell Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dark and mordantly funny . . . a real machine-gun narrative--the man can tell a story, oh, yes, indeed.\" --T. C. Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat could cause Bob to give up his job at the Los Angeles pathology lab that demands so little of him, where he can play Tetris and Web surf whenever he wants? What could lead him to walk out on his beautiful girlfriend, who makes her living as a masturbation coach? What could make him risk everything and ultimately transform him into Roberto, a kingpin in the Los Angeles Mexican mafia? An erotic tattoo. But not just any naughty skin ink, the Mona Lisa of erotic tattoos, painted on a severed arm, which lands on Bob's desk one morning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBob may have fallen for the woman in the tattoo, but he's not the only one who wants the arm. There's the telenovela-addicted mobster who lost it, the \u003ci\u003ejefe\u003c\/i\u003e who needs to keep it out of the clutches of the police, a backstabbing cannabis aficionado\/Wharton MBA, and a wine snob LAPD detective who knows that the arm is the evidence he needs to bring down the entire Mexican mafia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Haskell Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, \u003ci\u003eMoist, Delicious, Salty, Baked, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRaw\u003c\/i\u003e, and the non-fiction \u003ci\u003eHeart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has also appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Vulture, \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. Smith is an award-winning screenwriter and assistant professor in the MFA program for Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert Graduate Center. He lives in Los Angeles. He likes Mexican food.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.28 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42175178178695,"sku":"9780802143358","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/87816fe6366e1fc9aee82d67f584c30a.webp?v=1733379757","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/moist-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}