{"product_id":"perfect-life-a-novel-9780393069501","title":"Perfect Life: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Perfect Life  Jessica Shattuck once again displays her skewering gift for social commentary (New York Times) in a uniquely modern chronicle of conception in the age of infinite possibility. Two years ago  Neil Banks walked into a bathroom in the Pacific Fertility Center to provide his former college girlfriend  Jenny Callahan  with the biological material needed to conceive a child. Becoming a father was not part of the deal: adrift in his postmodern Los Angeles lifestyle  he signed away all paternity rights. But on the day of the babys christening  Neil turns up at the church. His unexpectedand unauthorizedreturn to Jennys privileged East Coast world sends a shockwave through the families of Jenny and her two college roommatesand sets off this keenly observed novel about fertility  biology  love  and American excess.  Elegantly written  Perfect Life asks the perennially daunting question: What is the perfect life? In her smart and timely new novel  Jessica Shattuck tells a story that is humorous and moving  enlightening and life-affirming.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647003811893,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393069508","price":28.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393069501.jpg?v=1781685155","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/perfect-life-a-novel-9780393069501","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}