{"product_id":"9781491714102","title":"The Boy Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrute Greenbaum faces challenges beyond those of ordinary 12-year-olds.\u003c\/b\u003e Faded hearing. Dimming eyesight. Bad hips. A penchant for farting. They're normal for an English Bulldog equivalent to a human centenarian and pursued by the \u003ci\u003eMalach HaMavet\u003c\/i\u003e—the Angel of Death. But they're only the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eA cantankerous lover of literature, rabinnic wisdom, humor and skateboarding, Brute must hold together the remnants of his shattered San Francisco family. Abbie Greenbaum, a 24-year-old dog walker, remains estranged from his college-professor father Morty more than a decade after the deaths of Abbie’s sister and mother. Yet he and Morty still live in the same house.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eEnter Sarah—a 10-year-old with Down syndrome—and Rivka, her divorced Jewish-Chinese mother who teaches stand-up comedy and can't shake her ex, a classically trained cellist into bondage.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThe three Greenbaums encounter a series of trials posed by mortality, jealousy and long-buried secrets, which represent nothing—and \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c\/i\u003e—to laugh about.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183697903856,"sku":"9781491714102","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781491714102_p0.jpg?v=1763659015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781491714102","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}