{"product_id":"9781914502101","title":"An absence of cousins","description":"Ilka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior teaching post at the prestigious Concordance Institute, a liberal college in bucolic Connecticut. But how can she, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, find a new set to belong to - a surrogate family? Might the Shakespeares - the institute's director and his wry, acerbic wife - hold the key?\n\nIn these interlinked New Yorker stories, Lore Segal evokes the comic melancholy of the outsider and the ineffectual ambitions of a progressive, predominantly WASP-ish institution. Tragedy and loss haunt characters as they plan an academic symposium on genocide, while their privileged lives contrast starkly with those on a derelict housing project next door. \n\nIncludes the acclaimed New Yorker podcast story, 'The Reverse Bug'.","brand":"Groszmann, Segal, Lore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56676987339138,"sku":"9781914502101","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0936\/6575\/5522\/files\/9781914502101.jpg?v=1779985401","url":"https:\/\/archwaybookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781914502101","provider":"Archway Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}