{"product_id":"2940169322781","title":"Lucky Us: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER ¿ \u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eO: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy father's wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eAway\u003c\/i\u003e was called \"a literary triumph\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eLucky Us\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris's ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith their friends in high and low places, Iris and Eva stumble and shine though a landscape of big dreams, scandals, betrayals, and war. Filled with gorgeous writing, memorable characters, and surprising events, \u003ci\u003eLucky Us\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling and resonant novel about success and failure, good luck and bad, the creation of a family, and the pleasures and inevitable perils of family life, conventional and otherwise. From Brooklyn's beauty parlors to London's West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104450232560,"sku":"2940169322781","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169322781_p0.jpg?v=1763679501","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169322781","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}