{"product_id":"times-a-thief-9781101974131","title":"Time's a Thief","description":"It's the mid-1980s in gritty, vibrant New York City when Francesca \"Chess\" Varani strikes up a volatile friendship with drama-queen classmate Kendra Marr-Löwenstein. Drawn into the orbit of Kendra's Salingeresque family, Chess moves into their Greenwich Village home when she graduates from Barnard and takes a job assisting the infamous literary intellectual Clarice Marr. There she receives the sentimental education and emotional roughing up New York bestows on all its young hopefuls--including a doomed love affair with Clarice's troubled son. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNarrating her story twenty years on, from the winter of the 2008 financial crisis, a sadder but wiser Chess evokes her youth with all the poignancy of time passing--and all the weight of choices made and not made.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eB. G. Firmani is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an MFA from Brown. Her short fiction has been published in \u003ci\u003eBOMB Magazine, The Kenyon Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBellevue Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589801017618,"sku":"9781101974131","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c5ec4aad-47db-495e-8c11-ab7eb5561d68.jpg?v=1756807152","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/times-a-thief-9781101974131","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}