{"product_id":"9780967952048","title":"The War at Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Remarkable. Thrillingly well-crafted. A brilliant novel.\"—Robert Olen Butler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy Lehman has a secret. Everybody loves her eccentric family but nobody knows what's really going on. Her mother is a respected dance therapist, able to calm the most incorrigible delinquents in the Bronx. Her father, just returned from WW2, is a working class hero. On a good night they'll eat snack food for dinner, do the dishes in the tub while the kids are taking a bath and sing old labor songs. But on a bad night, when dad comes home in one of his dark moods and mom retreats to her bed, surrounded by the empty bottles of pills she's charmed out of neighborhood pharmacists, the insults fly along with the furniture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with wit, understanding, and remarkable pluck, \u003ci\u003eThe War at Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a warts-and-all autobiographical novel in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Liar's Club\u003c\/i\u003e , in which an inseparable brother and sister thrive in spite of the crazy household created by their parents and learn to raise themselves to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe War At Home\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the more innocent world of New York City in the 1950's, where lonely teenagers can find a safe haven in the Botanical Gardens and the Bronx River speaks of freedom as surely to two Jewish run-aways as to Huckleberry Finn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a profoundly moving and intelligent evocation of the magnificent terrors of family life, the ones that bind us to childhood forever: beautifully written, deeply felt.\"—Vivian Gornick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eNora Eisenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of English at the City University of New York. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review, The Village Voice Literary Supplement, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTikkun\u003c\/i\u003e . She is the co-author of four popular books on writing, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe American Values Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (Allyn \u0026amp; Bacon, 2001). She lives in Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leapfrog Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020518670576,"sku":"9780967952048","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780967952048_p0.jpg?v=1763876702","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780967952048","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}