{"product_id":"lillian-boxfish-takes-a-walk-a-novel","title":"Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, Kathleen Rooney","description":"\u003cp\u003eNOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,” Lillian Boxfish writes, “I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street…”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, “in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow it’s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It’s chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now―her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl―but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed―and has not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Transporting…witty, poignant and sparkling.”\u003cbr\u003e―People (People Picks Book of the Week)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"gentle books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48008997339273,"sku":"9781250151162","price":50.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/9289\/1785\/files\/9781250151162.jpg?v=1787467307","url":"https:\/\/thisisgentle.com\/products\/lillian-boxfish-takes-a-walk-a-novel","provider":"gentle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}