{"product_id":"9780525432623","title":"The Misfortune of Marion Palm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather \"a woman who embezzles.\" Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. But, now, when the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house. Told from the points of view of Nathan, Marion's husband, heir to a long-diminished family fortune; Ginny, Marion's teenage daughter who falls helplessly in love at the slightest provocation; Jane, Marion's youngest who is obsessed with a missing person of her own; and Marion herself, on the lam—and hiding in plain sight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026079498480,"sku":"9780525432623","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780525432623_p0.jpg?v=1763710255","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780525432623","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}