Swell
Book
First edition.
"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 reasonseven 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"--
"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"--
"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"--
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
0 current holds with 8 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
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| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | FICTION EISENSTADT (Text) Fiction |
31036150818901 |
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| Croton Free Library | FICTION/EISENSTADT (Text) Fiction |
31006151610557 |
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| Harrison Public Library | EISENSTADT, J. (Text) Fiction |
31010300111848 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | EISENSTADT (Text) Fiction |
31014152559328 |
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| Mamaroneck Public Library District | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31015152238789 |
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| Mount Vernon Public Library | FICTION EISENSTADT (Text) Fiction |
31018155064202 |
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| Scarsdale Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31029153736329 |
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| White Plains Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31544200759538 |
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