{"product_id":"9781429903004","title":"Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaula Marantz Cohen's triumphant first novel,\u003ci\u003e Jane Austen in Boca\u003c\/i\u003e, was an inspired blend of classic English literature and modern American manners. Her new novel heads north to the seemingly quiet suburban town of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, for a comedy that even Shakespeare couldn't have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarla Goodman is worried. Her husband, a gastroenterologist in private practice, is coming home frazzled because medicine isn't what it used to be.  Her son's teachers want to put him on Ritalin to stop him from wreaking havoc on the fifth grade. And her cranky twelve-year-old daughter has a bas mitzvah coming up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it's Carla's sweet, widowed mother, Jessie Kaplan, who really has her baffled. Jessie has suddenly \"remembered\" that she was Shakespeare's girlfriend---the Dark Lady of the sonnets---in a previous life. Can even the famed Dr. Leonard Samuels, psychiatrist and author of the self-help book How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Mother-in-Law, help with problems like these?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWitty, engaging, and wickedly observant, \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado About Jessie Kaplan\u003c\/i\u003e is an unpredictable tale of love, loss, and family rites of passage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154127405296,"sku":"9781429903004","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429903004_p0.jpg?v=1769901340","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429903004","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}