{"product_id":"must-read-well-9781610885423","title":"Must Read Well","description":"\u003cp\u003eEllen Pall's \u003cem\u003eMust Read Well\u003c\/em\u003e immerses the reader in an escalating game of cat-and-mouse between two women: a millennial scholar driven to deceit to reach her goals and a frail octogenarian no less capable of deception. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNarrated by Liz Miller, a penniless Ph.D. candidate desperate to finish her dissertation, the novel begins when Liz's boyfriend abruptly ditches her, rendering Liz homeless and reduced to couch-surfing at best friend Petra's tiny Manhattan studio apartment. Trying to find an affordable living space, she stumbles across a Craigslist posting that will change her life: a room with a view in a pre-war Greenwich Village apartment. The rent is a pittance, but in exchange, the tenant must be willing to read aloud daily to the apartment's sight-impaired landlady. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiz quickly figures out that the sight-impaired landlady is none other than Anne Taussig Weil, author of the 1965 international blockbuster \u003ci\u003eThe Vengeance of Catherine Clark\u003c\/i\u003e and the very woman whose refusal to cooperate for the past four years has held up Liz's dissertation on the feminist works of mid-century women novelists. Access to Weil is the key to completing her doctorate at Columbia and finally getting her academic career back on track. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiz sets scruples aside and presents herself as a quiet young woman still finding her way in life. Once settled in, Liz learns from Weil that her need for a reader stems from a desire to revisit a key episode in her life. That episode, recorded in the scrawled journals Weil kept since she was a young girl, turns out to be the story of her passionate, disastrous, secret love affair with a celebrated pianist-the affair, in fact, which gave rise to the plot of Vengeance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe novel, which builds from there to a double-twist climax, is fast-paced women's fiction, perfect for book club members everywhere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bancroft Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781610885423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ellen Pall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42303924797621,"sku":"9781610885423","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bb82c1f7-7bf0-4e91-a61a-cdcb7d42027b.jpg?v=1658843601","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/must-read-well-9781610885423","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}