{"product_id":"nuclear-family-paperback-1","title":"Nuclear Family - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the director of \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Dumped Me, \u003c\/i\u003e Susanna Fogel, comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents, over the course of three decades. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins with Julie: their thank-you notes, letters of condolence, family gossip, and good old-fashioned familial passive-aggression. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, their missives - some sardonic, others absurd, others heartbreaking - weave a tapestry of a very modern family trying (and often failing) to show one another they care. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe titular \"Nuclear Family\" includes, among many others: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA narcissistic former-child-prodigy father who has taken up haiku writing in his old age and his new wife, a traditional Chinese woman whose attempts to help her stepdaughter find a man include FedExing her silk gowns from Filene's Basement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheir six-year-old son, Stuart, whose favorite condiment is truffle oil and who wears suits to bed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJulie's mother, a psychologist who never remarried but may be in love with her arrogant Rabbi and overshares about everything, including the threesome she had with Dutch grad students in 1972.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67575869669599,"sku":"9781250165237","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pKBuSMGnuK9781250165237.webp?v=1790376713","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/nuclear-family-paperback-1","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}