{"product_id":"they-may-not-mean-to-but-they-do-9781250132123","title":"They May Not Mean To, But They Do","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of America's greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness, and love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don't just grow, they grow old, and the clan's matriarch, Joy, is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would have wished. When Joy's beloved husband dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother's loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy's college days. And they didn't count on Joy herself, a mother suddenly as willful and rebellious as their own kids.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author Cathleen Schine has been called \"full of invention, wit, and wisdom that can bear comparison to   Jane] Austen's own\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), and she is at her best in this intensely human, profound, and honest novel about the intrusion of old age into the relationships of one loving but complicated family. \u003ci\u003eThey May Not Mean To, But They Do \u003c\/i\u003eis a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250132123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Cathleen Schine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648619212956,"sku":"9781250132123","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_84a58e75-24c2-4fed-929d-ace2f9dd462d.jpg?v=1603870559","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/they-may-not-mean-to-but-they-do-9781250132123","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}