Swell
  • Published:
    Jun-2017 (Hardcover)
    Jun-2018 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    272
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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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EDITIONS
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    • Jun-2018
    • Back Bay
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0316316881
    • ISBN13: 9780316316880
    • First Edition
    • Jun-2017
    • Little, Brown
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0316316903
    • ISBN13: 9780316316903
    •  
    • Jun-2017
    • Lee Boudreaux Books
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jun-2017
    • Little, Brown and Company
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 031631689X
    • ISBN13: 9780316316897
    •  
    • Jun-2017
    • Little, Brown
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1478949678
    • ISBN13: 9781478949671
    •  
    • Jun-2017
    • Blackstone Pub
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1478949643
    • ISBN13: 9781478949640



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