{"product_id":"nuclear-family-9781250165237","title":"Nuclear Family","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the director of \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Dumped Me, \u003c\/i\u003e Susanna Fogel, comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents, over the course of three decades. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins with Julie: their thank-you notes, letters of condolence, family gossip, and good old-fashioned familial passive-aggression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, their missives - some sardonic, others absurd, others heartbreaking - weave a tapestry of a very modern family trying (and often failing) to show one another they care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe titular \"Nuclear Family\" includes, among many others: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA narcissistic former-child-prodigy father who has taken up haiku writing in his old age and his new wife, a traditional Chinese woman whose attempts to help her stepdaughter find a man include FedExing her silk gowns from Filene's Basement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir six-year-old son, Stuart, whose favorite condiment is truffle oil and who wears suits to bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulie's mother, a psychologist who never remarried but may be in love with her arrogant Rabbi and overshares about everything, including the threesome she had with Dutch grad students in 1972.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Holt Adult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250165237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Susanna Fogel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41573838389429,"sku":"9781250165237","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_df28adda-cc1f-4d78-b6b9-02e39f353e34.jpg?v=1643686167","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/nuclear-family-9781250165237","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}