{"product_id":"the-responsible-party-by-claire-carusillo-9781250408631","title":"The Responsible Party","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/em\u003e meets Sam Lipsyte in this rollicking, hilarious debut novel about a family of unforgettable women obsessed with securing their legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClaire grew up with the legend of the Unsinkable Mounsey Women. Her great-great-grandmother Fanny made headlines in 1915 for washing ashore in England nearly a year after her ship sank. Fanny's daughter Sarah went to collect her mother on the equally ill-fated Lusitania—whose sinking she, too, survived. Their improbable endurance led to regional stardom on the Midwestern vaudeville circuit. But Claire never knew the full story—until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eListless, jobless, and recently cancelled for extolling skin-care advice online that sent a reader to the hospital, Claire is surprised when a knock at the door turns out to be the police, looking for answers about a murder from the 1970s they suspect her mother, Kath, may know something about. As the cops zero in, Claire demands answers from her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKath's comically long response, which blossoms into the story of the Mounseys and their descendants writ large, moves from a Liverpudlian poorhouse at the onset of World War I to a Lake Michigan lighthouse in 1971 (when sex was freer and McDonald's fried their potatoes with beef tallow) to present-day Chicagoland; along the way, it offers Claire a richer understanding of what she inherited from the complicated, resilient women she descends from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReplete with inappropriately old boyfriends, dubious medical professionals, and more than a few boats, \u003cem\u003eThe Responsible Party\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of several women, in several different timelines, trying to stay afloat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67598843642092,"sku":"9781250408631","price":71.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250408631-the-responsible-party-1.jpg?v=1790725106","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-responsible-party-by-claire-carusillo-9781250408631","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}