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Swell, June 2018
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Back Bay Books
June 2018
On Sale: June 5, 2018
272 pages
ISBN: 0316316881
EAN: 9780316316880
Kindle: B06W2K2DB4
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Thirty years after From Rockaway ("A great first
novel" --Harper's Bazaar), Jill Eisenstadt returns
with a darkly funny new work of fiction that exposes a city
and a family at their most vulnerable. 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. 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 From Rockaway), a
former lifeguard, former firefighter, and reformed
alcoholic--who feels, for reasons even he can't explain,
inordinately protective of the Glassmans. 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.
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