{"product_id":"swell-9780316316880","title":"Swell","description":"\u003cb\u003eThirty years after \u003ci\u003eFrom Rockaway\u003c\/i\u003e (\"A great first novel\", \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e), Jill Eisenstadt returns with a darkly funny new work of fiction that exposes a city and a family at their most vulnerable.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Sue Glassman's family needs a new home, Sue relents, after years of resisting, and agrees to convert to Judaism. In return, Sue's father-in-law, Sy, buys the family -- Sue, Dan, and their two daughters -- a capacious but ramshackle beachfront house in Rockaway, Queens, a world away from the Glassmans' cramped Tribeca apartment. The catch? Sy is moving in, too. And the house is haunted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the weekend of Sue's conversion party, ninety-year-old Rose, who (literally) got away with murder on the premises years earlier, shows up uninvited. Towing a suitcase-sized pocketbook, having escaped an assisted living facility in Forest Hills, Rose seems intent on moving back in. Enter neighbor Tim -- formerly Timmy (see \u003ci\u003eFrom Rockaway\u003c\/i\u003e), a former lifeguard, former firefighter, and reformed alcoholic -- who feels, for reasons even he can't explain, inordinately protective of the Glassmans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The collective nervous breakdown occasioned by Rose's return swells to operatic heights in a novel that charms and surprises on every page as it unflinchingly addresses the perils of living in a world rife with uncertainty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316316880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Jill Eisenstadt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43049413509301,"sku":"9780316316880","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d2e8bd2e-6a21-4846-822a-1a94055e24f5.jpg?v=1689689343","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/swell-9780316316880","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}