Swell
(Book)
"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"--
Notes
Eisenstadt, J. (2017). Swell. First edition. New York, NY, Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Eisenstadt, Jill, 1963-. 2017. Swell. New York, NY, Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Eisenstadt, Jill, 1963-, Swell. New York, NY, Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Eisenstadt, Jill. Swell. First edition. New York, NY, Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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