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Swell: A Novel Audiobook
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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, 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 an audiobook 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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“Comic, dark…layered with ghosts and guilt and demons. It plays with our notions of heroes and heroism and jabs at our one-dimensional instinct to deify in the face of tragedy.”
— Village Voice
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“Mordantly funny.”
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“With a pitch-perfect narrative voice and plenty of humor, Eisenstadt captures the lives of her Mets-loving and Yankee-hating characters in vivid detail.”
— Booklist
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A Town & Country Magazine Pick of 16 Novels to Read This Summer
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About Jill Eisenstadt
Jill Eisenstadt is the author of the several novels, including From Rockaway and Kiss Out. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Boston Review, New York Magazine, and BOMB.
About Courtney Patterson
Courtney Patterson graduated magna cum laude with a BA in theater performance from Valdosta State University. She is an associate artist at Georgia Shakespeare where she has appeared in dozens of shows, taught in the education department, and developed a cabaret series. She can also be seen frequently on the stages of the Alliance Theatre and has also worked at the Aurora Theatre, Theatre in the Square, Theatrical Outfit, Synchronicity Performance Group, and the Horizon Theatre. In addition to her work on stage, she narrates audiobooks and performs in film and television.