{"product_id":"baby-of-the-family","title":"Baby of the Family - A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA wry and addictive debut about a modern-day American dynasty and its unexpected upheaval when the patriarch wills his dwindling fortune to his youngest, adopted son—setting off a chain of events that unearths secrets and tests long-held definitions of love and family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The money is old, the problems are new. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Meet the Whitbys: an American dynasty once inundated with ungodly real estate wealth and now facing a new millennium of unfamiliar obstacles. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e There was a time when the death of a Whitby would have made national news, but when the family patriarch, Roger, dies, he is alone. Word of his death travels from the long-suffering family lawyer to Roger’s clan of children (from four different marriages), and the outlook isn’t good. Roger has left everything to his twenty-one-year-old son Nick, a Whitby only in name—and Nick is nowhere to be found. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Brooke, an older daughter who is both overwhelmingly nostalgic and unexpectedly pregnant, leads the search for Nick, hoping to convince him to let her keep her Boston home. Shelley, the only child from the third marriage, hasn’t told anyone that she’s dropped out of college just months before graduation and is currently working as an amanuensis for a blind architect, with whom she crosses complicated boundaries. And when Nick, on the run from the law after a misguided act of political activism, finally appears at Shelley’s New York home, worlds collide and explode in spectacular fashion. Soon, the three siblings are faced with the question they have been running from their whole lives: What do they want their future to look like, if they can finally escape their past?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Weaving together multiple perspectives to create a portrait of the American dream gone awry, \u003ci\u003eBaby of the Family \u003c\/i\u003eis a vivid, absorbing debut about family secrets and how they define us, bind us together, and threaten to blow us apart.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51303928234272,"sku":"9781524743192","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781524743192.jpg?v=1772749706","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/baby-of-the-family","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}