SWELL A Novel by Jill Eisenstadt Publisher: Little, Brown Publication Date: June 6, 2017

A darkly funny novel set in the New York City beach community of Rockaway, Queens, NY, after 9/11.

Sue Glassman’s family is in a bind. They need to leave TriBeCa in downtown Manhattan and fine a new place to live. Her father-in-law, Sy Glassman, has a swell deal to offer. If Sue will convert to Judaism, Sy will buy them a house in Far Rockaway. Sue, her husband Dan, and their two daughters can move in… along with Sy. Sue agrees, she converts, the family moves to this mixed ethnicity village that is filled with current and retired firefighters, cops, and others. And who shows up? The former owner of the house, Rose, aged 90, who actually killed her son at the house before it was sold (but she blamed the illegal Chinese boatperson who had come ashore and lived with her before suddenly passing away.) And then even more surprises come in with the swelling tide…