{"product_id":"9780698184190","title":"Infinite Home: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[E]xpect to find insights that make you stop, go back and read again.... Take it from us: You don't know what's coming in the last third of this book, and you \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c\/i\u003e be astounded.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, \u003c\/i\u003ethe Oprah Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully wrought story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways—in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart—the renters struggle to navigate daily existence, and soon come to realize that Edith’s deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the greatest challenge they must confront together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Faced with eviction by Owen and his designs on the building, the tenants—Paulie, an unusually disabled man and his burdened sister, Claudia; Edward, a misanthropic stand-up comic; Adeleine, a beautiful agoraphobe; Thomas, a young artist recovering from a stroke—must find in one another what the world has not yet offered or has taken from them: family, respite, security, worth, love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The threat to their home scatters them far from where they’ve begun, to an ascetic commune in Northern California, the motel rooms of depressed middle America, and a stunning natural phenomenon in Tennessee, endangering their lives and their visions of themselves along the way. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith humanity, humor, grace, and striking prose, Kathleen Alcott portrays these unforgettable characters in their search for connection, for a life worth living, for home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Temple Publications International, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076659953904,"sku":"9780698184190","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780698184190_p0.jpg?v=1763618085","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780698184190","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}