{"product_id":"were-so-lucky-to-live-here-hardcover","title":"We're So Lucky to Live Here - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Pastan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of In the Field, an inquiry into grief, love, housing affordability, and the transformative power of art, in the story of a young theater director who, after her mother's death, stages Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in her childhood home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGwen Rivlin moves back home to Philadelphia in the wake of her mother's death, and into the big, shabby house with a turret where they both grew up. Her friends tell her it's too expensive for a 27-year-old theater director, and too suburban if she has any hopes of keeping her social life alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGwen is determined to stay, even when her schemes to make the house more affordable run afoul of the single-family zoning laws and earn the disapproval of her neighbors. To smooth things over, and to assuage her own grief, Gwen stages a production of The Cherry Orchard inside the turret house. She casts friends, coworkers from the local coffee shop, and various community members in Anton Chekhov's play about a family struggling to hold onto its own real estate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the creation of this beautiful and transitory work of art, Gwen heals old breaches, reevaluates her relationship with her difficult mother, and weaves a new, non-traditional family for herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Pastan's\u003c\/b\u003e novel, \u003ci\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003ethe Field\u003c\/i\u003e, based on the life of\u003cbr\u003eNobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock, won the inaugural Science +\u003cbr\u003eLiterature award from the National Book Foundation in 2022. She has also\u003cbr\u003epublished three other novels: \u003ci\u003eAlena, Lady\u003cbr\u003eof the Snakes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Married\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the literary director of Celia\u003cbr\u003eBookshop in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and former chair of Swarthmore's housing\u003cbr\u003eaffordability task force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56434447941937,"sku":"9781953002778","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/Ozj1uhHHcP9781953002778.webp?v=1790157228","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/were-so-lucky-to-live-here-hardcover","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}