{"title":"Jennifer Belle","description":"Jennifer Belle is the bestselling author of Going Down (for which she was named best debut novelist of the year by Entertainment Weekly), High Maintenance, and Little Stalker. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Independent (London), Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Ms., Black Book, Mudfish, and many anthologies. She lives in New York City and Olivebridge, New York, with her husband and their two sons.","products":[{"product_id":"swanna-in-love-paperback","title":"Swanna in Love - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late--stoned and radiant--in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont--to an artist colony where kids are not welcome and they are forced to sleep in the back of the truck, while Val is cozy inside the house with the Russian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Swanna meets Dennis, a handsome married father of two, at a bowling alley, and, knowing a thing or two about seduction from Judy Blume, her best friend at camp, and her own parents' many affairs--she sets out to convince Dennis to help her. But love seldom obeys rules, and even a tough, smart, city girl like Swanna might not be able to handle falling in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest-selling novelist Jennifer Belle returns with a kind of inverse \u003cem\u003eLolita\u003c\/em\u003e that explores adolescent desire from the girl's point of view. In turns hilarious and wildly shocking, \u003cem\u003eSwanna in Love\u003c\/em\u003e will keep your feathers ruffled and the pages gliding by.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374393327839,"sku":"9781636141640","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MWfEQ-aGEF9781636141640.webp?v=1789178893"},{"product_id":"the-seven-year-bitch-paperback","title":"The Seven Year Bitch - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHigh Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoing Down \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a witty, heartfelt comic novel about marriage, motherhood, and discovering that the life you have is exactly the one you want.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat's a fabulous New York City girl supposed to do when she finds herself fantasizing about the Grim Reaper more than she fantasizes about her husband? When she can't help but give him the finger on the set of \u003ci\u003eSesame Street\u003c\/i\u003e? And when she doesn't exactly hope for a safe landing when he goes away on business? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo, ex-hedge fund manager and new mom Isolde Brilliant hasn't got the seven year itch--taking care of her baby and husband and having a growing suspicion that she's living life in captivity has turned her into a \u003ci\u003eseven year bitch.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat's New York author Jennifer Belle's deliciously provocative phrase for the boredom, anger, and hurt that can creep into even the best of marriages--and affect even the most saintly of wives. In the tradition of Jennifer Weiner and Meg Wolitzer, Belle delivers a dead-on, raw and hilarious novel about motherhood and marriage and discovering the life you have is exactly the one you wanted.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375369224415,"sku":"9781594485169","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/FzNjXoSuyK9781594485169.webp?v=1789200147"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jennifer-belle.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}