{"product_id":"swell","title":"Swell","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44787250692275,"sku":"9780316316880","price":959.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477357679780316316880.jpg?v=1762816906","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/swell","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}