{"product_id":"sons-and-daughters-of-ease-and-plenty-9781594634895","title":"Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A timely, sophisticated tale [that] explores what happens when a charmed life loses its luster.\" -\u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning author of the new collection \u003ci\u003eAwayland\u003c\/i\u003e, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune--and its bearings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eA Story of American Wealth and Family Unraveling\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLabor Day, 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar--married with three children--are happily preparing for a family birthday celebration when they learn that the unimaginable has occurred: There is no more money. More specifically, there's no more money in the estate of Fern's recently deceased parents, which, as the sole source of Fern and Edgar's income, had allowed them to live this beautiful, comfortable life despite their professed anti-money ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuickly, the once-charmed family unravels. In distress and confusion, Fern and Edgar are each tempted away on separate adventures: she on a road trip with a stranger, he on an ill-advised sailing voyage with another woman. The three children are left for days with no guardian whatsoever, in an improvised Neverland helmed by the tender, witty, and resourceful Cricket, age nine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCritical Acclaim and Recognition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrimming with humanity and wisdom, humor and bite, and imbued with both the whimsical and the profound, \u003ci\u003eSons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of American wealth, class, family, and mobility, approached by award-winner Ramona Ausubel with a breadth of imagination and understanding that is fresh, surprising, and exciting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRamona Ausubel is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Here Except All of Us\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the PEN Center USA Fiction Award and the VCU Cabell First Novel Award, and finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. She is also the author of the story collections \u003ci\u003eAwayland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Guide to Being Born\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest American Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681278660882,"sku":"9781594634895","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_231dbeb9-f9fd-4b2d-bba8-607cbb163f60.jpg?v=1733951192","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sons-and-daughters-of-ease-and-plenty-9781594634895","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}