{"product_id":"sunday-jews-9780156027458","title":"Sunday Jews","description":"Hortense Calisher has been hailed as \"stand[ing] vividly with Cather and Fitzgerald\" (Cynthia Ozick). In this, her latest and most lauded novel, she explores a family united in blood yet divided by ideas. Son Charles hopes to be a Supreme Court justice; family beauty Nell has children by different lovers; art expert Erika has a nose job; and artist Zach has two wives. Their mother, infamous in Israel, born of a well-to-do Boston background but no longer rich, is bound to a past that never quite dies. The buried history of this extraordinary--and very American--family comes to light unexpectedly when grandson Bert brings home as a wife the woman who, years ago, joined the family circle, then mysteriously disappeared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold with wit and deep acuity, \u003cem\u003eSunday Jews\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force from a writer whose fiction has justly been compared with that of Eudora Welty and Henry James, and whose ability to delineate our lives is unparalleled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHortense Calisher\u003c\/b\u003e has written more than twenty books. Past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of PEN, she has been a National Book Award finalist three times and has won an O. Henry Award, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318178713874,"sku":"9780156027458","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_04db705a-117f-4de2-92e6-07ee6a6ea15b.jpg?v=1727550189","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sunday-jews-9780156027458","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}