{"product_id":"2940016125053","title":"Georgia, A New York Story","description":"Georgia, A New York Story is a character-driven novel that takes the reader on a stimulating, suspenseful, journey filled with humor, sadness, friendship and affirmation. Its engaging stories and quirky characters come together to form an arresting emotional mosaic of survival.\u003cbr\u003eGeorgia, a sixty-year-old professor of Musical Theatre and Drama Therapy, heads a colorful but complicated extended family in New York City during the latter half of 2001. Her Chelsea home is a haven for her ever-growing eclectic family of straight and gay friends, students, and neighbors who come and go at will.\u003cbr\u003eEven-keeled, John, Georgia’s younger husband, and Val, their twenty-one year old aspiring videographer daughter, support Georgia’s need to create a safe space with rules and standards where there is never an abandoned soul.\u003cbr\u003eThe newest arrivals to this loving household include: forty-year old Horace, a hapless poet desperate to gain acceptance from his dysfunctional family and achieve marriage with an unknown foreign girl he corresponds with via the Internet; nephew Nick, the eight-year-old son of her imperceptive brother and his deceitful, alcoholic wife; and Casey, an intelligent, kind-hearted, terrified teenage runaway, whose dark secret threatens to destroy any chance for future happiness.\u003cbr\u003eMusical theatre and New York historical references are sprinkled throughout this first novel that covers a variety of themes in serious, humorous and visual ways. The story and its characters are psychologically complex and the author addresses the importance of family systems, therapy and creative expression.\u003cbr\u003eGeorgia, a New York Story is the perfect choice for book clubs as the characters are multi-generational.  Topics for discussion are unlimited and may include: surviving emotional and physical abuse; co dependency; relationships; enabling; coming out; confronting your attacker, and surviving life with humor and love.","brand":"Lucha-Burns, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184379937008,"sku":"2940016125053","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016125053_p0.jpg?v=1763629341","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016125053","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}