{"product_id":"9781554909834","title":"Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew","description":"\u003cp\u003eBen is a performance artist about to enter his forties. His father and mother are both dead, and his brother, Jake, is a lousy source of information. So when he begins to struggle with a particularly nagging memory, he doesn’t know where to turn. The memory: the assassination — by his mother — of a prominent neo–Nazi.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn a non-chronological montage of memories, Ben travels back and forth through the events of his life, some of which seemed trivial at the time but are important now: his childhood summers at a cottage in central Ontario, his teenage years in a Toronto suburb, his disastrous university career, the calamity that precipitated his brother’s institutionalization.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eStuart Ross’s first novel is a blend of suburban realism and out–of–body surrealism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180005015792,"sku":"9781554909834","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554909834_p0.jpg?v=1763752974","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554909834","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}