{"product_id":"were-so-lucky-to-live-here-9781953002778","title":"We're So Lucky to Live Here","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of In the Field, an inquiry into grief, love, housing affordability, and the transformative power of art, in the story of a young theater director who, after her mother's death, stages Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in her childhood home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGwen Rivlin moves back home to Philadelphia in the wake of her mother's death, and into the big, shabby house with a turret where they both grew up. Her friends tell her it's too expensive for a 27-year-old theater director, and too suburban if she has any hopes of keeping her social life alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGwen is determined to stay, even when her schemes to make the house more affordable run afoul of the single-family zoning laws and earn the disapproval of her neighbors. To smooth things over, and to assuage her own grief, Gwen stages a production of The Cherry Orchard inside the turret house. She casts friends, coworkers from the local coffee shop, and various community members in Anton Chekhov's play about a family struggling to hold onto its own real estate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the creation of this beautiful and transitory work of art, Gwen heals old breaches, reevaluates her relationship with her difficult mother, and weaves a new, non-traditional family for herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Pastan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Delphinium Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953002778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/17\/2026 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Pastan's\u003c\/b\u003e novel, \u003ci\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003ethe Field\u003c\/i\u003e, based on the life of\u003cbr\u003eNobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock, won the inaugural Science +\u003cbr\u003eLiterature award from the National Book Foundation in 2022. She has also\u003cbr\u003epublished three other novels: \u003ci\u003eAlena, Lady\u003cbr\u003eof the Snakes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Married\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the literary director of Celia\u003cbr\u003eBookshop in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and former chair of Swarthmore's housing\u003cbr\u003eaffordability task force.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Rachel Pastan \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48944178495645,"sku":"9781953002778","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_87d7e282-5aba-4bc5-a529-973cdcf147a6.jpg?v=1790155286","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/were-so-lucky-to-live-here-9781953002778","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}