{"product_id":"2940169226409","title":"Boomer1: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eBluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld has arrived at his thirties with significant debt and no steady prospects. His girlfriend Cassieamp;mdash;a punk bassist in an all-female band, who fled her Midwestern childhood for a new identityamp;mdash;finds work at a \"new media\" company. When Cassie refuses his marriage proposal, Mark leaves New York and returns to the basement of his childhood home in the Baltimore suburbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesperate and humiliated, Mark begins to post a series of online video monologues that critique Baby Boomers and their powerful hold on the job market. But as his videos go viral, and while Cassie starts to build her career, Mark loses control of what he beganamp;mdash;with consequences that ensnare them in a matter of national security.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through the perspectives of Mark, Cassie, and Mark's mother, Julia, a child of the '60s whose life is more conventional than she ever imagined, Daniel Torday's \u003ci\u003eBoomer1 \u003c\/i\u003eis timely, suspenseful, and in every line alert to the siren song of endless opportunity that beckons and beguiles all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis program is read by Maggie Siff, acclaimed star of \u003c\/i\u003eMad Men\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eBillions\u003ci\u003e, and \u003c\/i\u003eSons of Anarchy\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104384925936,"sku":"2940169226409","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169226409_p0.jpg?v=1763675539","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169226409","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}