{"product_id":"the-kept-man-paperback","title":"The Kept Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJami Attenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, from the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Middlesteins\u003c\/i\u003e the novel that's \"unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny?\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent these years suspended between hope and grief, paralyzed with longing for a life and a marriage that are slipping away. But then, unexpectedly, Jarvis makes her first new friends in years when she meets the Kept Man Club: three men whose lifestyles are funded by their successful wives, who gather once a week on laundry day. With their help, she reawakens to the city beyond her Brooklyn apartment, past the pitying eyes of her husband's art dealer and his irresponsible best friend as her future begins to take on the irresistible tingles of possibility for the first time in almost a decade. When a shocking discovery casts a different light on her idealized marriage, she's propelled even further down a path that she would never have dared to imagine just months before. Tender, bold, and unabashed, \u003ci\u003eThe Kept Man\u003c\/i\u003e is a compulsively readable novel about love and loss from one of our most dynamic new storytellers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJami Attenberg is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Middlesteins \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Kept Man\u003c\/i\u003e and of the story collection \u003ci\u003eInstant Love\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, New York\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrint\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNerve\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Chicago native, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8 x 5.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 06, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41770842390663,"sku":"9781594483516","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d5b92a9fdbc78911cf79da27db10e349.webp?v=1734088572","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-kept-man-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}