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.
"Comic, dark...layered with ghosts and guilt and demons. It plays
with our notions of heroes and heroism, and jabs at our
one-dimensional instinct to deify in the face of tragedy."--Casey
Barrett, Village Voice
"With tremendous tenderness, Eisenstadt captures the traumatized
Rockaway of the early 2000s in swirling Technicolor....A whimsical
portrait of a still-raw community."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Swell combines comedy and tragedy, chaos and a longing for
order."--Hillel Italie, Associated Press
"Eisenstadt's detailed and eclectic novel takes readers to a
dilapidated oceanfront house full of secrets, ghosts, and an old
woman's cast-off tchotchkes....In this touching portrait of
ordinary people grappling with the aftershocks of 9/11--memorials,
uncertainty, death, and a new life--the emotional upheaval of a
national tragedy leaves no one unaffected."
--Publishers Weekly
"In her new novel, Swell, Jill Eisenstadt comes back to Rockaway,
and this visit revolves around historical events of recent
decades....Swell is anchored in real understanding of the people of
Rockaway, what they went through in those years and their recourse
to black humor."--Newsday
"Mordantly funny."
--Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times
"Moving, dark, and funny."--David Gutowski, Largehearted Boy
"With a pitch-perfect narrative voice and plenty of humor,
Eisenstadt captures the lives of her Mets-loving and Yankee-hating
characters in vivid detail."--Booklist
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