{"product_id":"9781416575948","title":"Something Red: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen Jennifer Gilmore’s first novel, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGolden Country, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003ecalled it \"an ingeniously plotted family yarn\" and praised her as an author who \"enlivens the myth of the American Dream.\" Gilmore’s particular gift for distilling history into a hugely satisfying, multigenerational family story is taken to new levels in her second novel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Washington, D.C., life inside the Goldstein home is as tumultuous as the shifting landscape of the times. It is 1979, and Benjamin is heading off to college and sixteen-year-old Vanessa is in the throes of a rocky adolescence. Sharon, a caterer for the Washington elite, ventures into a cultlike organization. And Dennis, whose government job often takes him to Moscow, tries to live up to his father’s legacy as a union organizer and community leader. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rise of communism and the execution of the Rosenbergs is history. The Cold War is waning, the soldiers who fought in Vietnam have all come home, and Carter is president. The age of protest has come and gone and yet each of the Goldsteins is forced to confront the changes the new decade will bring and explore what it really means to be a radical. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomething Red \u003c\/i\u003eis at once a poignant story of husbands and wives, parents and children, activists and spies, and a masterfully built novel that unfurls with suspense and humor.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181717012720,"sku":"9781416575948","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416575948_p0.jpg?v=1763726831","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416575948","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}