{"product_id":"the-misfortune-of-marion-palm-a-novel-isbn-9780525432623","title":"The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Debut Novels 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather \"a woman who embezzles.\" Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her children’s private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator they had to have, and state-of-the-art exercise equipment, gathering dust. When the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from her basement and runs. Leaving her husband and two daughters to grapple with the consequences of her crime, and the mother-shaped hole in their house, Marion is on the lam, hiding in plain sight. Brilliantly skewering the mores of a status-obsessed society, and perfectly capturing the spirit of bourgeois Brooklyn Heights, this wildly entertaining debut novel features a “bad mom” you can’t help but love..","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305050788069,"sku":"NP9780525432623","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780525432623.jpg?v=1767740532","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-misfortune-of-marion-palm-a-novel-isbn-9780525432623","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}