{"product_id":"the-misfortune-of-marion-palm-9780525432623","title":"The Misfortune of Marion Palm","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 mo","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525474197847,"sku":"9780525432623","price":11.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780525432623.jpg?v=1731860645","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-misfortune-of-marion-palm-9780525432623","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}