{"product_id":"lillian-boxfish-takes-a-walk","title":"Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, \u003ci\u003eLillian Boxfish Takes a Walk\u003c\/i\u003e 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\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,\" \u003c\/i\u003eLillian Boxfish writes, \u003ci\u003e \"I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street...\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Transporting...witty, poignant and sparkling.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003e(People Picks Book of the Week)","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41926515589205,"sku":"9781250151162","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0617\/0211\/1317\/files\/imageloader_e8d626be-7666-4e6d-b461-889cfde86535.jpg?v=1764627586","url":"https:\/\/shopchapterbookstores.com\/products\/lillian-boxfish-takes-a-walk","provider":"Chapter One","version":"1.0","type":"link"}