{"product_id":"9781462816439","title":"Boca: A Novel","description":"Katharine Epstein, a sixty-one year old woman, has lived her life in the lap of  \u003cbr\u003eluxury.   Her father was a successful attorney and her mother was from a prominent   \u003cbr\u003eProtestant American family.  She has two sisters, Phebe and Gloria.   Katharine fell in love with a handsome Jewish medical student, Laurence Epstein,  when she was in her late teens and ultimately married him.  She converted to Judaism. Laurence's parents are religious and Holocaust survivors. They live on the lower East Side of Manhattan.  Laurence had a sister Betty, a renegade, who left home at the age of eighteen.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eAfter the couple married, Laurence's sister gave birth to an illegitimate  \u003cbr\u003eboy whom she planned to give up for adoption.  Katharine and Laurence adopted and  \u003cbr\u003eraised the child.  The couple also had three other children  and had been married for over forty years when Laurence dies.   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe novel is about Katharine and her family,  and  \u003cbr\u003ethe emotional journey she travels from the time her husband dies to the revelations after his death. We see her metamorphosis as she is faced with many challenges.    \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThis riveting family saga exposes murder, deceit and greed and the pressures of  \u003cbr\u003ewealth, family life, love and truth.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Author Solutions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124680442096,"sku":"9781462816439","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462816439_p0.jpg?v=1763677875","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462816439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}