{"product_id":"9781429949965","title":"Eden: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the head writer of the original \u003ci\u003eIn Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e, an exquisite novel of the maturation of a girl, a family, and an entire community\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEden is no paradise: it is the stifling, rural community in which upscale urban escapees, Alona and Mark, drift apart and divorce under the resentful scrutiny of Roni, Mark's needy adolescent daughter. Against a rich panorama of Eden's oldtimers and newcomers, Mark, an emotionally detached architect, begins an involvement with his ex-wife's best friend, Dafna, who is desperately trying to conceive through the torments of technology, while sixteen-year-old Roni pursues the attention of older men by readily dispensing sexual favors. Over the course of one month, Roni's self-dramatizing turns to tragedy, her parents are jolted out of their absorbing concerns, and a new family structure begins to form out of an unlikely set of characters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a portrait of family entanglements, disappearing countryside, and disappointed expectations, Yael Hedaya, a determinedly plainspoken novelist, has brilliantly mapped the social and emotional ecology of midlife and achieved miracles of insight and understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154118623472,"sku":"9781429949965","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429949965_p0.jpg?v=1769902272","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429949965","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}