{"product_id":"9780802168900","title":"The Hitch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors’ Pick * A \u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Month * An NPR Book of the Day\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Winningly zany . . . [Levine’s] commitment to boinging around the loopy little world she’s built is total. Only a killjoy would refuse to join her.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the cult classic \u003ci\u003eTreasure Island!!!\u003c\/i\u003e, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Levine debuted with her outrageously original and unforgettable novel \u003ci\u003eTreasure Island!!!\u003c\/i\u003e, which became a cult classic and bookseller favorite. With the ferocious absurdity of Rachel Yoder’s \u003ci\u003eNightbitch \u003c\/i\u003eand the inventive comedy of Kevin Wilson’s \u003ci\u003eNothing to See Here\u003c\/i\u003e, Levine’s highly anticipated second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Hitch\u003c\/i\u003e, follows a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an antiracist, secular Jewish feminist eco-warrior, Rose Cutler is convinced she knows the right way to do everything, including parent her six-year-old nephew Nathan. When his parents reluctantly agree to let Rose babysit him while they go on a vacation designed to save their marriage, she is determined to follow their rules and not overstep. But on her first day with Nathan, Rose’s beloved Newfoundland attacks and kills a corgi at the park and Nathan starts acting strangely: barking, overeating, talking to himself. Rose believes this is how Nathan’s child imagination is coping with the dog’s death, but Nathan insists the dog isn’t dead; her soul leaped into his body, and now she’s living inside him. With only a week left before his parents return, Rose races to ban­ish the corgi from her nephew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn off-kilter comedy about loneliness, bad boundaries, and the exacting nature of unconditional love, \u003ci\u003eThe Hitch\u003c\/i\u003e is a big-hearted novel that exposes the fault lines of our pieties and asks how far a person should stretch to fit into their own family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sara Levine","offers":[{"title":"Grove\/Atlantic |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-11-13","offer_id":48995386851583,"sku":"9780802168900","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8eb004a6-9bcd-41cc-b0da-18b78580d0c3.jpg?v=1786481910","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780802168900","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}