{"product_id":"the-risk-pool","title":"The Risk Pool","description":"A wonderfully funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler  The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk  New York  where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up  even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult.  His father  Sam  cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother  Jenny  is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models  Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving.  From the Trade Paperback edition.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44850719195189,"sku":"ByrdShop_0394565274","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0394565274.jpg?v=1765797138","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-risk-pool","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}