{"product_id":"nuclear-family-a-tragicomic-novel-in-letters-9781250165237","title":"Nuclear Family: A Tragicomic Novel in Letters","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusanna Fogel \u003c\/b\u003eis a Rhode Island native and apologist. She writes and directs films and television, including the films \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Dumped Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLife Partners \u003c\/i\u003eand the ABC drama series \u003ci\u003eChasing Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She is an alumna of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. She lives in New York and Los Angeles. And she has bangs, obviously.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Holt Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514992660754,"sku":"9781250165237","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6dae7f7c-f21a-47a3-a69c-1befaa3d3b1b.jpg?v=1730996555","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nuclear-family-a-tragicomic-novel-in-letters-9781250165237","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}