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Jill Eisenstadt

Biography

Jill Eisenstadt

Jill Eisenstadt is the author of the novels FROM ROCKAWAY and KISS OUT. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Boston Review, New York Magazine and BOMB. She lives in Brooklyn.

Jill Eisenstadt

Books by Jill Eisenstadt

by Jill Eisenstadt - Fiction

When Sue Glassman's family needs a new home, Sue relents and agrees to convert to Judaism. In return, Sue's father-in-law, Sy, buys the family a capacious but ramshackle beachfront house in Rockaway, Queens. The catch? Sy is moving in, too. And the house is haunted. On the weekend of Sue's conversion party, 90-year-old Rose, who (literally) got away with murder on the premises years earlier, shows up uninvited and seems intent on moving back in. Enter neighbor Tim --- a former lifeguard, former firefighter and reformed alcoholic --- who feels, for reasons even he can't explain, inordinately protective of the Glassmans.